Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy

Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by jackweirdy on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:57AM (#11952778)

"Assange is suffering deteriorating health, he has a small space and little light. It is an embassy under siege. It is very difficult to make a phone call, the internet collapses the whole time, pictures are taken as people enter and leave the building"

Unusual that an embassy would have internet problems. Sounds like GCHQ have a van in the street...

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by jrgv on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:51AM (#11953098)

Maybe they route all traffic through a VPN to Ecuador or something like that?

I doubt that GCHQ would be the reason for internet problems; even if they have "a van in the street", they'd have no incentive to impact the quality of the connection that they monitor.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by andy_ppp on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:07AM (#11953197)

Unless incompetence. Or malice.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by eli on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:17AM (#11952890)

I used to work in the Albanian embassy building and the internet was terrible. I think they just didn't have much to spend on it.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by smcl on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:19AM (#11952901)

I would have thought Internet access was a drop in the ocean vs all the other expenses involved in operating an embassy

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by gaius on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:11AM (#11953575)

Many embassies are little more than a house for the ambassador to live in, with a meeting room or two.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:08AM (#11954020)

According to Wikipedia, the address of the Embassy of Ecuador, London is "Flat 3b, 3 Hans Crescent, London SW1X 0LS".

The "Flat 3b" makes me think it's a bit of a shoestring operation.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by jonlucc on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:26AM (#11954183)

Interestingly, it looks like a very large apartment building, with several police officers clearly visible near doorways on StreetView.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:53PM (#11956112)

It was under police guard from when Assange fled there until Feb 2015, which may be what you're seeing. (At significant cost: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31159594)

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by eli on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:17AM (#11953621)

I think a lot of other expenses were underfunded too.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by qrmn on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:06AM (#11953544)

More permanent than a van. (Not that unusual for an embassy to be spied on!)

It might have something to do with the IMSI catcher installed more or less across the road; hard to hide those, they broadcast, and that one is not particularly trying to be stealthy.

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Re:Sweden asks to meet Julian Assange inside Ecuador embassy by arviewer on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:57AM (#11953909)

I would have a friend buy a good 4G data plan for 20GB monthly or even more. That would get him more reliable and faster internet. He could have several. How much does that cost?

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