Looking foward then woody, as you understandably have objections to our infrastructure hosting or officially linking to the original images files, what do you see are our options should the current alternative (nds2.fds-fire) disappear?

Random links posted within TMO are always going to happen. As joerg has already stated, to which I agree, these are a potential security risk to anyone who uses them. Files from nds2.fds-fire server may not be around forever, and there is always the risk of corruption during download. To ensure the images that people are using are correct, as a first plan of action can we add size and md5 info to the wiki for all known variants and then prevent that page from being edited. I can find for uk variants at the moment but if I recall others may have been on tablets-dev.