 as well as his colleagues and friends and associates were extensively surveilled during his time at the embassy. And our next speaker, Andy, is going to talk about procedural and technical details of that surveillance, which is what we are really interested in. That's why that was full. So, Andy, technical aspects of the surveillance in and around the Quadorial Embassy in London. Please give him a warm round of applause. Okay, good morning, everybody. I'm holding this talk, actually, the second time. The first time was on day one, but somehow the video recording got fucked up. I would say CIA, but at this early time of the talk, you might think I'm paranoid, but, well, we can discuss that after my talk again. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. Oh, oh, fuck. Open source. Anyone here who knows computers? Welcome to the embassy for the lecture. We're going to talk about Feedback of Twitter friends. My name is Baden. And farmer's company. We're going to talk about it in German for you today. Okay. So, the presentation does come out some, but the presentation goes over some. This presentation does cover some, but not this presentation will go over some, but not all aspects. It is, of course, stuff happened on the wireless network. It happened on the internet. There was going to be more things going on, which made us think that we were seeing the internet away from the internet. It was probably through the internet, but we are still getting documentation. But it's going to be new data, and it's going to be a long PDF in the future that will explain what exactly happened. Second disclaimer, what I'm putting you is not from the company code. I'm just going to introduce things that were discovered by a global. We are subject to an ongoing lawsuit. They are currently part of a running legal action. Yeah. Accepting third-party instructions and a lot of money. They probably took money from other sources. He's investigated for violating those and tried to see if you were a lawyer. They have, yeah, privates were injured, ring injured. Yeah, it's event well, event well, I want to go to wash and so on. And the Spanish justices took the money out and so on. So today, on the day of today, but no one was complaining. So yeah, the legal case is still going on. And we also have materials from other services which we have worked around. There are a few indications what they could have done. That this is a pretty long, long foretaste is that it's probably good to give you a short overview just to show you the big picture. So that you can see the rooms and so on. So the operation hotel, that was the official assignment of this company, to protect the Anasaya agents and also the, that was then, for example, the guest service. There were standard operation procedures, so pace and so we, Davi Morale, had, would have instilled what, yeah, it would have instilled what one should do. It would have instilled what visitors instilled, what the, yeah, what the message, all the, yeah, what it has to be documented and so on. And what you could do for upgrades for the security situation. Then what Julian did to the, to the surveillance, to the enemy, and so on. So it all comes to be pretty plastic. The context is that Julian, the idea of the hacker ethic, has taken all the information to be free. And we could, of course, we could of course also say that he has probably one of the highest decision-prices and to be in a protected company. And he had, yeah, he has a lot of recognition and the power he has, that fits well, fits well in a way, not together. Yeah, no matter. The big picture is that he, the story a little bit understands how, what happened. There was a starting phase when he was brought into the message, where they were not yet prepared for him and where they, for example, had a surveillance camera. They had it for people who were visiting. And in 2015 he was involved in a company, he did a lot of things. There were three different phases, which I, for you guys, took the first phase, which was President Obama and the left-wing government of the government of Korea. And at the very beginning of the surveillance, for the surveillance of the Ecuadorian industry and there was a security conference and after Las Vegas, they presented these small companies and they had one customer. So, so much to the size of the company. So, you had a very quick and more interesting thing and he was able to start his career very well. And at the beginning he also took payments from a company from a yacht company, for example, he had a yacht from Edison and he also had this yacht, a security team and they were already taking payments. In 2017, after there were already some researches, but the USA actually made even more and after that the government in Ecuador changed and so the whole protocol has changed quite a bit again. So it wasn't just interspersed communication with the employees, but also suddenly people were under pressure they were put under pressure by the American friends that there are more swaps with cameras and cameras with audio recordings. So, we can now get out of it or we can say quite a bit that this is from the USA because there were e-mails and the e-mails showed the IP addresses and that's what our analysts are looking for and we know where these IP addresses were geologized. The English of David Morales was not very good and also not very good, but sometimes the descriptions were very detailed, the technical details were very clear, but they also came out. So we are very sure that that was what we were talking about. And at the end of 2017 there was a little thing that we will explain later, but I want to point out another thing which eventually was caused by confusion. And in April 2018 two things happened. The new government of Ecuador basically closed a deal with the USA where this investigation by Julian Sancho is part of it. So that the end of the Ecuadorian elections should have interfered and intervened, they were not satisfied and after they were not satisfied with the work, they then organized a second company and paid for it, which was done by the local secret service. And with this material, it was even easier to use to bring legal claims, because what was recorded before was clearly illegal. But the second part, the second application of the second company, it was almost, it was almost about an appraisal attempt against WikiLeaks and that is also now in a court case. So my presentation will be basically before 2018, so before this point so that you don't... So one thing I want to say is that all the owners of Julian Sancho were fired from Ecuador and gave to the US and based on this, that they did. So here is a little overview of the message. It's not the whole building, it's just the earth that goes on the left this road to the end, where... Yeah. So this is from the side, so on the right side you can see the emergency exit, even more side views and on the right side was the inner courtyard. So in the building there are even more messages, for example the Colombian one directly on the right side. There are others, I don't know which ones they are, I forgot, but there you see the entrance gate situation of another perspective. There you have a overview of the cameras before the upgrades in December 2017. So the interesting thing is maybe on the left side the Salad de Reunion even though it's further from the left because there were most meetings with Julien Assange. But you can see how the surveillance was done and that's everything that Julien Assange could have used. And on the right side was Abidaphio in the USP that was the place where he was allowed to sleep. So I'll show you again the outside now. There were also some cameras an 8 megapixel camera 360° which we also saw. So these are the more harmless cameras on the side and there you see the big camera which had this big angle and that's pretty good. It even took pictures which I'll show you later. So you see here it's on the right and on the left is the entrance. Operation Hotel that was the code name for the official security measures around the embassy. There was a certain terminology so who what's the name so director for the ambassador hotel for embassy so you know how to do that. So most of it was written by the ambassador so even if you have to enter the embassy and how they are treated how their passports are tested how their electronic devices are examined etc. That was an official representative of the Ecuadorian secret service that was the secretary of the embassy that was officially named and she officially had a job in the embassy but she is apparently stoned with 20.000 US dollars in bar and pro month because I was given a special place where she had to travel with her husband so there was a comment there is a rough overview and for this she did not only accept the changes in the embassy that it would be what the Ecuadorian wanted and not what the Amis wanted and but there was some other funny behavior the original SOPs the standard operational procedures that were about breaking in so visitors go to the embassy show their passports who are looking for a metal detector the passport and all electronic devices have to stay in the security switch and then we name passports date when you come the guests bring the visitors to the conference room and then close the door while the pass is copied and there was daily, weekly and monthly specifically released security reports or incident reports so from the visitors which person was invited why, how long blah blah blah then the data about the pass so exact time all the visitors were copied the description of the guests how they look if they had a companion video material of the entrance room, of the meeting room and even if they went so for example you can see the star of one person so there was a lot of passports there is for example of the entrance situation of November 2016 that is one of the guests who comes in he says he is inviting shows his passport he is checked he is examined and on the left you can see some funny upgrades to the cameras so there were the upgrades that was done so now you can see the overview he is examined he has to check if it is the recording device that the guests can take with them recording device so there the so it was that was all for the protection of Julian so this is a meeting documentation I am it is a bit boring I am not so there is a more exciting thing a positive slide that I have a missing in a that is a a rapper who lives in the UK but is also from Sri Lanka but it is also a cat so the cat part is of course important yes the third delivery changes to the entrance they started in 2017 after Morales the communication was switched that could with the change in the West because the Trump administration they were afraid that other departments or other departments could look in and therefore they wanted to switch the communication they started the original hard disks from network video recording to get all 14 days and after 15 days they were so with that Morales flew relatively regularly to the USA and they then continued to be American friends and then new information will be sent to the people in 2017 there was a new camera that could record audio and things were just optimally improved so for example the audio filters in the cameras were improved they made new configurations the Americans also demanded that they have direct access to these streams so they wanted in the message that there were two access layers one for the Ecuadorian and the other for the US we have one email that is the one that we don't speak in Spanish but it is absolutely clear that it speaks about this video stream unabashed Ecuador unabashed Otrabara X for others of course X are the others so now it is about for example in the door they installed a telephone that means before the entrance they didn't have to call but they had to say the names and the guards who were in the lobby area they heard the names and they also had a voice sample in the electronic transmission of course and that was something they did that went on also the guards opened the door then they took the passport and then they had to wait outside at that time with the passport etc. and you had to wait for further instructions and had to wait outside after that the guards started e-mails and e-mails written by the visitors or photographed and then they also examined the device and I have three I have a few examples so that was a correspondent Washington Post there are more photos from an Italian Italian journalist why they always took all the USB stick stuff with them because we can see that it was all taken but you can see it clearly they also took out the SIM cards to photograph them extra and accordingly to see the SIM cards so they wanted to have it all and to see how it looked afterwards from the meeting and the new cameras and 2017 with the new cameras now there is audio so yes that is a pretty improvement probably clear and if you zoom in you could even read the instructions however that was not enough they had problems with the white noise generators and that was a critical meeting they wanted to improve the audio quality if you did not speak loudly the cameras could not record on the ceiling so they made a survey to find out which possibilities they have to use and they also looked at the network and equipment here you can see where the fire extinguisher played the main role you can see this button they took some of the plastic and put it under a wall also from the room level you could from the height of the head record the voice well and it is with battery so the battery had to be changed and they could record for about 26 minutes but you get the idea you get a rough idea how they are on the left side you can see the noise generator all the dirt is around where you could see what could be the fire extinguisher here you can see Julian also installed a loudspeaker on the window there was not only one loudspeaker over the table but also directly on the window and here you can see the loudspeaker on the table they also opened the electrical wiring and the light switch to see if there was something in the bathroom they did that in the bathroom number 2 in the bathroom number 2 was the women the women bathroom where there was a shower and later was Julian's personal bathroom where he also had meetings with his lawyer while the shower was running as it was in some movies behind the rubbish that you would see behind that something there they had wiring for the light and there they installed a washing and that did not need any further manipulation and there they had good audio quality and they also went through the kitchen and there you can see from the house humor from Vigilix if you see here and the other aspect that Morales discussed with the employees of the message when he came back from his travels was that he asked if they had an idea how to open one of the doors so that the friends could come to kidnap them and they were also thinking if you could put poison in the food what options there were to poison them and the thing with the door was open by chance because it would be completely illegal to kidnap someone in the message of another country but it's secret services the laws and what they did is they have all doors documentation for all doors and all locks so that you can think how a kidnap could work they even made a small video to show how you could get out of this emergency window I have the video here and there you can see that it would work and according to the reflection you can identify the person but that's just one of three videos that we have they did it for the other the rooms in the back of the building and then you could maybe take one of the windows or something that would have been easier than to open the door so this I can name all doors windows to name and to identify and there was a kind of leader that you could come from above all windows were named and what they did in 2017 is two hidden microphones recording devices and behind the closet in the bathroom and they installed high resolution cameras and these microphones and they also discussed that they wanted another room, the front room that Julian also had the former library where he had a room not for visitors but to work for himself and to work with employees the room was difficult to get out they would have had to go through the room of the office so they were they had a statue whatever I don't know what it means microphones to hear through the walls and to do that the Americans asked if they could take a spoon or a knife to scrape off a piece from the wall so they could find the material so they could find out what kind of drill they had to bring with them they had very, very long drill that you can in a certain way in a trunk next to the wall and that takes three hours for three hours for three centimeters but it doesn't make any noise and these are the places and they documented their work of course there is video documentation and photographic documentation of the installation of these upgrades of the camera and so this is the the updated diagram of the camera installations you would see all the internal cameras are now all four megapixels the conference room has two on both sides so you can really monitor the whole room so you don't have to switch between the other but you can see that there are still very small corners in the room that have not been monitored before and now you can monitor the whole room and this sound generator that Julian has used that has caused a lot of headaches that has worked quite well and that is true when you sit with this white noise generator in the room then you get headaches that is really not great it works already and you can't record it but it is really hard to stay in there for one or two hours as always the Americans had problems and they have already started to listen to the laser with laser reflections microphones so that the vibration is used on the glass of the window and with the white noise generator you have a loudspeaker that has been shown on the window and that is why they should bring a special sticker that the Ecuadorian allowed to have a foam and on the other side a reflective side so that you can do it anyway so you have this thing here and here and unfortunately I don't have a good photo of these stickers but you can see here the documentation that they have installed on every window not only in the conference room they have a sticker on every window so that you can and the outside camera the 8 megapixel monster camera has the Americans on the other side the windows here with the laser machine so you get the idea that is not a camera and there is other things that happen at the same time that is more for your entertainment so here after some technical tests they have also done some normal things so it was not only spying for the Americans but the most important and most impressive thing is the end of 2017 the end of 2017 the government of Ecuador the new government was already elected but not in the office and one of the last things the old government to solve this they gave him the citizenship and promoted him to a diplomat and had a list of countries prepared him where he could be called a diplomat to one of the other ambassadors where he had a similar environment and on the 21st of December he had the embassy the the boss the Ecuadorian secret service was met and that was completely started the Americans had a big alarm and after he used a wide news generator he was a little away from the fire extinguisher also positioned but there were even the guards asked to the door and to hear if you can hear something and in this night so it was around 3, 4 in the morning it was a little longer and the next day the international court was against Julian they informed the British and the British informed the Ecuadorian that they wouldn't accept if he was promoted to a diplomat and the police then was positioned on the side street and so the terminal information was actually actionable intelligence I have a few links to resources that is a case that continues I will probably publish something on bug planet if you are interested and you want to support it the legal situation or other information you can support the Wauholland I am at the front and we collect money for his defense and other WikiLeaks publications that was all I wanted to say for the first time we still have time for questions and answers how much I don't know 20 minutes or so and then that was the translation of the talk of the Ecuadorian Embassy of Julian Assange thanks for listening for feedback you can use the hashtag c3t on your social network your choice I will talk about the stickers they said that the law changed that they had to have these stickers and that the angle of the camera got improved because of a law change that is very noticeable so now we go to the questions applause again thank you very much for the very thoughtful lecture we take questions I turn off the microphones in this case I am not only open for questions but also for ideas we will ask a very short question from the internet what is this laser sticker technology what is the purpose of it why do we need it maybe I wasn't making it clear enough the stickers have a reflective surface on the outside and when they are glued to the image then you can see the sound inside I don't know exactly how it works because we don't have it because if we could we could check it but in the end it looks like the Americans somehow from the vibration of the voices with the laser technology in combination with the content thank you very much it looks like we don't have any further questions it seems like everyone is too worried to ask there is another question can you hear me hello without revealing a source how are you with all this information for the videos, the cameras and so on I am a investigative journalist and I don't talk about methods and sources according to legal advice I leave your imagination your imagination there is a current court case that is going on I have already talked with Julian and with others I have to say before I go too deep into the whole and look at the material hours and days I would have done that but after I did I would say we had a good situation so a deeper awareness so you know where we are next question next question in the beginning you said that there were several embassies my question is the floor is part of a private building or a neutral area no, it is part of the building and the the corridors are divided by all the embassies but the private buildings are divided so it is a shared building but the problematic police who trained the British hit and run police they are not allowed to go to the embassies but they are allowed to go into the entrance and the entrance so sometimes you hit them when you look at the guards in the embassies but in the first months of Assange there were many police outside in the winter they had to be pretty cold and they even put a big truck where police were standing so there was a police conference so there was an ongoing police conference outside next question were you approached by someone who works for a security service or were you forbidden to talk about your operation and the embassies not directly that they talked about me but I would say I was already jailed there was hidden surveillance so that they would hide their devices so the interrogation started with me when I arrive in the early morning to the airport to the immigration desk and they take a pass and ask three times the same question without waiting for my answer the question is where do you go so at some point after all that happened I thought okay after some time they are ready to follow me they are ready to follow me and suddenly people followed me in Heathrow so that is not people who follow you directly but in the sense of you should know that we know that you are a friend of Julian Assange you should know that we can do that if we want microphone 1 thank you very good talk very dystopian I want to repeat what was said how high is the chance that you will be overawakened and do yourself what against it so I could at some point talk about that I found a physical patient on my phone I had a lot of very strange coincidences for example accidents car accidents in the early morning in a European city in the night that was a very interesting experience and at some point get used to that is how it is but that is a loss of quality of life and you are becoming a little bit different in your behavior against other people unfortunately that is situational awareness you cannot be careful enough if you look at it if you look at the possibilities and the budget then of course they have a lot of military budget we have maybe cut the phone maybe OTR and crypto phones my assumption is I do and I do nothing illegal but the whole case against julien and after we searched and looked at the material that our assumptions confirmed I think for me it is pretty clear there is no about him that he has some kind of law that has nothing to do with law but it is a political case and they want to create a presidential case so that we do not like to bring the dots from the internet on the other side on the good side we looked at julien that it is possible that the internet is a possible platform a good possibility more information and knowledge about the secret of the governments and publicly but it costs now it becomes more dystopian sorry next question I am sure there are other suggestions now thank you very much for this great proposal the details it is very interesting to see and to get a concrete idea of how it all happened as you said everything was in agreement with the Ecuadorian embassy and I would like to know how the legal perspective is and if there are cases how to deal with it is there anything to defend yourself what I can say is that the Spanish lawyers with high pressure work on it with working together with the government and to look at this the owner of this company was also arrested and is currently paying for it because it might be very important for Julian's main extradition case because it shows that the USA or some parts of the US government that the absolute possibilities were undermined and prevented him from being able to build up that would be an argument but I have talked a lot with these lawyers but they said in all other cases that is the end but in this case the UK government nobody expected a fair process in this case because it is in a single state that is normal for terrorist organizations and mass murderers it is clear that it is not a normal case and the UK in this case ignored the UN clause against Folter and it was not about that he knows all this surveillance but it was about if they want to kill him and if he has the possibility that he can expect a fair process that was from the beginning there is a question but the UK theoretically we should all be extremely angry and complain about it and demand that his just his rights are just ignored but if the court says that he is guilty it is actually not the problem but it is even worse that maybe he has just turned it around and we are talking Hello, do you know if the Spanish company is still responsible for the security so maybe I didn't do the slide so no, they are thrown out their contract was ended in April 2018 and the other company from security took it over Thank you very much what I can also say that maybe another important aspect some of the employees worked in the company and had their 8 hour shifts they are important witnesses for the Spanish incidents they were not happy they are also not happy with what happened that they are aware that the American security services were the ones that hurt the regulations there is the option that some of us the company got a lot of money that the company got a lot of money but they didn't share it some of these guys are not happy that they were in the same room with Julian thank you one more question how do you explain how do you explain the intimidation excuse me how do you explain how do you explain the big effort that you have and these very ambitious steps why is it so big how many secret services do you think you are in this room when you look at it the first question was I'm not sure if I understood it why well I think I would have imagined it differently I could have said I don't have to go into the Mala report look at page 74 you suspected that I because I visited so often and I brought Julian food, clothes, computer USB sticks in packages and all kinds of things that I didn't bring because I was there so often and the Washington Post came to me and said you have different sources from secret services that I sent the emails from the Democratic DNC on a USB stick and I will never prove that but it's bullshit and I'm one of the members of the Vau-Holland Foundation and I work in this project where it's about the the I mean with money in the prison and maybe they just want to follow the money and that's just a human Julian is a human and I think they have a lot of money to deal with the problem that's all and what was the second question how many secret services do we have in this room hmm on the stream I see 23 on the stream I see definitely 23 in the room it's maybe 8 I think the guy over there looks a little weird he has a headset on and was quiet all the time I mean what can I say the public security protects being oppressed that was the idea of Vau but not all aspects can be completely open there are sources that we have to protect there are people who have to be protected we have to protect everything journalists who bring interesting sources and as a media project protect a certain amount of things under the current circumstances that's relatively difficult okay is that a question or not? yes are you from the CIA? I hope not okay then you don't see us on the microphone 2 please if you're not from the CIA okay thanks are there actually diplomatic consequences in this case the UK the UK has the I would think that in every normal European country there are now investigations official investigations possibly from other messages after you have learned all these things and Great Britain has not only decided to leave the EU but also to become a colonial power if they weren't there all the time and I also have not the impression that the current Ecuadorian government is particularly pro-US they have many US installations the military allowed in Ecuador they have also helped this research here I don't know how the Spanish investigation is going on that's probably the strongest what is currently going on there are controversial statements in how much secret service was involved CIA people were involved that can also have been both that is currently going on and this left here is my own little wiki where I collect these updates the Spanish sources from the news and in the next weeks you will learn things that are still going on now the person not from the CIA I want to make it clear that I have never received direct payments from the CIA that's why that's the principle I would be very surprised if we find evidence because one of the basic work of the secret service is the ability that means they can't deny that they did something if there is a strange name but you can't really prove who it was and where it came from that's the proof you can't prove who it was because that's just the way of the secret service but I mean how do I tell that not just those I always thought there was a hidden voice for undercover security but there was maybe how the money flows are very questionable not all of it seems to have gone directly over Sheldon Allen I actually forgot to give him a link he is also in prison also a very strange intelligence very strange international spy but he is 90 years old so it's just a cover for other people and he lives in Las Vegas, Macau and on the other hand he has espionage in Macau he was accused of having wikipedia to have money laundering from Ford that he printed money in Iran for cinema or vice versa so he is a very interesting person in the context I thought it was about some calculations okay calm that I would also say that I had a very funny fantasy about it if it wasn't for my friend of mine could you please explain to me then I would be very grateful then I would be very grateful definitely try something like that at home a question from the internet please the internet asks what is happening now to wikileaks organization if Assange is sentenced to life and the internet wanted to notice thank you for the talk and applause I don't speak for wikileaks but I am in contact with editor in chief and wikileaks is still published the last publication was two days ago of course they decided to continue because they think it is the only thing they can do to show that it is a publishing organization and they also worked with media partners and in Iceland where Christian is now sitting the environment is much more supportive especially with these banks and there was a national scandal there was a small country with 300.000 people so the environment is much better and Christian believes that they will leave him in peace and find the work well it is not the UK but before UK I can't speak and I can't speak for wikileaks if anyone has good ideas in the internet and as I said where we have to crowd source our ideas then I would be very grateful thank you now the guy definitely not from the CIA we have suspected for a while that there is secret work that there is a delivery but there was no evidence that the public and most journalists are suspected and now after the public it is all clear that was totally obvious so how can we help the next Julian we know where we are not yet sure that he will definitely be watched to make the situation known so theoretically as far as I know is the publication of wikileaks not illegal and he was not illegal there are researches but these researches are about the question how sources were convinced to be source there is the suggestion that Chelsea Manning was to promote things and how the public and that Chelsea Manning is also in prison as you may know because she does not want to say exactly this question so it is not only the publication that is threatened but also actually it is also about the treatment of sources and the whole wording and how things are called so it is very hard for me right now the one thing how we can continue but obviously we are in a situation where it is about the transparency of government progress and that this transparency is reachable over the internet and through the internet with the spread of data information and that the people who now have power have also been attacked and now we should attack these people in power as a democracy and with our as a democracy and how do we do that in a state like the former United States of America, now Trump is there or in the UK so how should we do that we are now there in the old Europe or Germany with its old history with the other countries that at least have a constitution that is a bit based on human rights that is not the case with the United States not with the United Kingdom so in these countries I always see the possibility that you can do something that is also a bit of a situation in European and American understanding how to rule and we cannot let that happen it is not about Julian it is about our possibility to deal with governments and if you listen to that it is also about the possibilities of a government how to deal with us