Assange returns to Earth Questions are being asked why no one has ever seen pallid, 11*-fingered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NASA ‘naut Jeff Williams in the same room at the same time, after sharp-eyed observers noted the pair's startling physical resemblance. Jeff Williams Photo credit: NASA tv. Julian Assange photo credit: Cropped pic by …
The green box is adjacent to the embassy building. I installed next door's internet connection - a pair of FTTC + pfSense cluster. I'm under no illusion that I am the only sysadmin on those little boxes and I suspect the wifi PSK is in a db in Gloucestershire but our monitoring shows they haven't skipped a beat in over two years.
I remember seeing rather a lot of tooled up plod in the area, hanging around in doorways. Go and have a look on your street viewing tool of choice. Find Harrods and it is across the road on the corner of Hans Crescent - the stripey building with the flags.
GCHQ tap in at the next hop past the green box so they can have all the embassies traffic mirrored remotely for a longer period than their usual bulk collection system which only allows a rewind of data for a shorter time span.
Added bonus of no guys in hi-vis jackets pretending to do roadworks outside the embassy is needed!
if the rumours about Assange's personal hygiene and resulting odours are correct, I doubt if he'd remain long on a space station before he was chucked out of the airlock
Nah - you'd just leave him im his space suit breathing his own fumes. I've worked for years in dangerous environments, and there is one lesson you pick up very quick when you're dealing with partially recycled air: if you smell in any way, you'll be smelling it first, and most intense.
Even simple dust masks come with that education: trainees tend to welcome a mint after their first 5 minutes in a mask, and tend to ensure they've brushed their teeth from that point onwards :).
Can you imagine the cops faces if he walked into the Embassy carrying a Harods bag and dressed in a suit, turns around and waves to them as the door shuts?
With his approach to hygiene it would only take posting a cop downwind to pick up that he's trying to leave (which also makes any disguise pointless). I'm also not sure the guards at Harrods would even allow someone so hygienically challenged to enter, also since he's also somewhat short of money - the last I heard, he owes quite a few people money including a certain Manning..
I've been wondering what we can really believe now.
In general I find it difficult to separate fact from fiction in news media.
And he's pissed a lot of people off.
Not that I have a lot of sympathy for Assange.
It does seem like he brought all this attention on himself.
It does seem like he brought all this attention on himself.
Ah, but getting ATTENTION was always the plan and intention. However, getting away with criminal activity as a thank-you for Wikileaks was never going to happen - he should not have believed his own publicity. If anything, he rather damaged the whole proposition and may now have to think about either spending time in jail or worse, actually having to work for a living (gasp!).
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