Both the tomb and cemetery were fake, however, built by the production on the hillside across from the city. He picked the ancient hilltop city of Matera in southern Italy, said to be the third oldest continually habited settlement in the world, for its ‘haunted quality’. Given Daniel Craig’s Bond had already visited Venice, Siena and Rome, director Cary Fukunaga was looking for somewhere mysterious and unique for Vesper’s tomb. Warning: contains No Time to Die spoilers throughout. But with access to top-secret Bond dossiers and some time spent on set in Pinewood and Italy, writer of No Time To Die: The Making of the FilmMark Salisbury is able to throw some light on the big questions to emerge from Bond 25. Some questions, like the whereabouts of those ‘fast boats’ at the end and Paloma’s exact CIA backstory, will remain mysterious for time eternal. Daniel Craig’s send-off is shaping up to be a biggie, and after 15 years, five movies and a tonne of bumps and bruises, it’s the very least he deserves as he hangs up his license to kill for good.īut if you’ve seen it, you’ll know there’s a lot to unpack in this epic final outing. Across the site there are a number of labs and teams comprising of professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, forming a melting pot of ideas where innovation is the main objective”.No Time to Die is finally out – in most countries, at any rate – and going gangbusters at the cinema. “In real life, UK NACE’s home Hanslope Park, is at the heart of the UK Government’s effort to use pioneering technologies to help protect its interests at home and overseas. The Bond franchise brilliantly captures one vital element of modern espionage – the importance of cutting-edge science & technology. The Director of UK NACE says: “Most of the gadgets Q makes for 007 eventually are made to work in some sort of fashion in the real world. Various levels of protection are available, although these increase the weight of the vehicle and alter performance and stability, dramatically.” How are gadgets developed? Regular vehicles can be fitted with fibreglass panels with various armour ratings. The UK uses these special vehicles at some of our Embassies overseas. Do armoured cars really exist in the real world? The ability to monitor 007’s location from anywhere might be of benefit to Q, but would also present a cyber-security nightmare, leaving the door wide open for hostile intelligence agents to compromise the system and potentially tamper with 007’s coordinates, and relay false information back to Bond’s bosses.” How about Bond cars… the ultimate Q gadgets. And while discreet, such a device would be difficult to covertly attach to someone without them noticing. These devices typically have a range of only a few metres so data could only be transmitted to a nearby phone or other receiving device (although cellular and satellite connectivity is getting more common). However many of us now frequently wear smart watches and wearables all day to monitor our vital signs. UK NACE say: “At present, no such tracking technology exists which can be injected into the bloodstream of a human being. Manufacturers have to contend with 3D printed rubber ‘finger prints’ and mechanical bypass of the locking mechanism.” What about Spectre, when Bond gets injected with nano-bots, transmitting his location to MI6? UK NACE say: “Biometric technology has been used to secure firearms commercially, but any authentication measure is only as good as the mechanism it protects. Here the team of expert engineers and technologists put their knowledge to the test: In the film Skyfall we see Q issue 007 with a Walther PPK/S pistol, which he claims contains a sensor so that only Bond can fire it. With 75 years’ experience in detecting and protecting against technical espionage and attacks, UK NACE provide technical security support for the UK government, UK armed forces, law enforcement and critical national infrastructure. To mark the release of the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, experts at the UK’s National Authority for Counter-Eavesdropping (UK NACE), have given their take on some of the film’s favourite on-screen spy gear.
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