[2010] WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.” Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. “That’s for you,” she said.

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[2010] Julian Assange - Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year? He is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those before him (like Daniel Ellsberg) were limited in the ways they could go public with their information. But in founding WikiLeaks.org, Julian Assange gave himself the freedom to publish virtually anything he wants, whether it's the true nature of Iraqi prisoner abuse, the double role Pakistan plays in Afghanistan or the personal e-mails of Sarah Palin. Assange's site, which he started four years ago, has made public a trove of secret and classified documents — close to 500,000 pages on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars alone.

“Hi, this is Julian Assange” » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism While WikiLeaks relied on the greatest news outlets in the world, Julian Assange entrusted OWNI with the conception, the design and the development of the crowdsourcing application. Here is the story. Our questions. His answers. Diplomacy, WikiLeaks, and a spiritual view When I worked in the diplomatic service, there were many times when, in the field, I penned cables back to Washington that provided a frank assessment of the local situation. There were also occasions when a high-ranking official spoke candidly to me. The time wasn’t right, and maybe never would be, when that information could be made public or appear in the morning newspaper. So these cables were sent and received in a secure way meant to minimize the possibility that misunderstanding or hostility between my country and the host country would occur.

Julian Assange Early life Assange was born in Townsville. Hacking In September 1991, he was discovered hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications.[9] The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange's phone line (he was using a modem), raided his home at the end of October,[36][37] and eventually charged him in 1994 with thirty-one counts of hacking and related crimes.[9] Trax and Prime Suspect were each charged with a smaller number of offences.[38] In December 1996, he pleaded guilty to twenty-five charges (the other six were dropped), and was ordered to pay reparations of A$2,100 and released on a good behaviour bond,[9][34][39][40][41][42] avoiding a heavier penalty due to the perceived absence of malicious or mercenary intent and his disrupted childhood.[39][40][43][44] Programming

Wikileaks and the Long Haul Clay Shirky Like a lot of people, I am conflicted about Wikileaks. Citizens of a functioning democracy must be able to know what the state is saying and doing in our name, to engage in what Pierre Rosanvallon calls “counter-democracy”*, the democracy of citizens distrusting rather than legitimizing the actions of the state. Wikileaks plainly improves those abilities. Readers’ Choice for TIME’s Person of the Year 2010 The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year’s Person of the Year poll. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place.

Swedish Pirate Bay to Host New Wikileaks Servers The Pirate Party will host several new WikiLeaks servers. This was agreed during Julian Assange’s visit to Stockholm last weekend, and the Pirate Party is happy to announce that everything has been finalized. The contribution of WikiLeaks is tremendously important to the entire world, says Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Pirate Party in Sweden. 10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010 Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects popping up all over the place. Some were good, and a lot were not so good. More than anything, I noticed a huge wave of big infographics this year. It was amusing at first, but then it kind of got out of hand when online education and insurance sites started to game the system. Although it's died down a lot ever since the new Digg launched.

Julian Assange The Cypherpunk Revolutionary SlowTV: What is Labor's future?: Mark Latham with Robert Manne SlowTV: Does social democracy have a future? Merkel, Manne, Gallop, Lake MediaGuardian 100 2010 Job: founder, WikiLeaksAge: born 1971Industry: digital mediaNew entry Julian Assange is the undercover force behind WikiLeaks, the self-styled "intelligence service of the people" that has published more than a million confidential documents from top secret military information to the hacked emails of Sarah Palin. Launched at the beginning of 2007 and with a mission to change the world by abolishing official secrecy, the website has posted the text messages of people killed in the September 11 attacks, controversial correspondence between climate change researchers at East Anglia University and the so-called "Collateral Murder" video of American forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad.

Julian Assange: the teen hacker who became insurgent in information war Glimpsed in the half-light of a London evening, the figure may just have passed for female. She emerged cautiously from a doorway and folded herself into a battered red car. There were a few companions – among them a grim-visaged man with Nordic features and a couple of nerdy youngsters. One seemed to have given the old woman her coat. The car weaved through the light Paddington traffic, heading north in the direction of Cambridge. There was no obvious sign of pursuit. Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Predictions Concerning the Future of Supply Chains The end of the year is always a joyful time for tabloid newspapers. They don't have to wrench their minds thinking up provocative headlines or pursue off-the-wall stories or compose fabulous fake articles about celebrities or aliens. They simply have to turn their pages over to any number of clairvoyants who are willing to prognosticate about the future. Yogi Berra once purportedly stated, "Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." Mr.

Assange: I’m Influenced by “American libertarianism, market libertarianism” Forbes has a big interview up with controversial Wikileaks impresario Julian Assange. This section in particular will be of interest to our readers: Would you call yourself a free market proponent? Absolutely. I have mixed attitudes towards capitalism, but I love markets.