Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assangeis an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 July 1971
CityTownsville, Australia
CountryAustralia
sea bridges support
Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.
direct-action cryptography violent
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.
justice way achieve
One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
coke washington-dc putin
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
brother home apples
Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.
abuse domestic-violence wikileaks
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
cells wikileaks demand
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.
organization effort important
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.
messengers revealing uncomfortable
Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.
agency add databases
Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them,
dna data ideas
I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.
track over-you information
Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.
networking notes meetings
That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
media burning this-generation
This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.