Julian Assange Quotes
Julian Paul Assange (born Julian Paul Hawkins, 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006. He has won numerous accolades for journalism, including the Sam Adams Award and Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. He has been called "the Robin Hood of hacking." As the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, a website that posts secret documents and information in the public domain, Julian Assange (pronounced Ah-Sanj) believes that total transparency is for the good of all people.
Facts:-
Assange was reportedly born in 1971 in the city of Townsville, northeastern Australia. He was mostly homeschooled as a child, thanks in large part to his already peripatetic existence: by the time he was 14, he and his mother had reportedly moved 37 times.
After his mother’s relationship with a musician turned violent, Assange lived on the run between the ages of 11 and 16.
When Assange turned 16, he began hacking computers, reportedly assuming the name Mendax — from the Latin splendide mendax, or “nobly untruthful.”
In 1991, at the age of 20, Assange and some fellow hackers broke into the master terminal of Nortel, the Canadian telecom company. He was caught and pleaded guilty to 25 charges; six other charges were dropped. Citing Assange’s “intelligent inquisitiveness,” the judge sentenced him only to pay the Australian state a small sum in damages.
Assange studied math and physics at the University of Melbourne, though he dropped out when he became convinced that work by others in the department was being applied by defense contractors and militaries.
In 2006, Assange decided to found WikiLeaks in the belief that the free exchange of information would put an end to illegitimate governance. The website publishes material from sources, and houses its main server in Sweden, which has strong laws protecting whistle-blowers. Assange and others at WikiLeaks also occasionally hack into secure systems to find documents to expose. In December 2006, the website published its first document: a decision by the Somali Islamic Courts Union that called for the execution of government officials. WikiLeaks published a disclaimer that the document may not be authentic but “a clever smear by U.S. intelligence.”
The website went on to get several prominent scoops, including the release in April 2010 of a secret video taken in 2007 of a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a dozen civilians, including two unarmed Reuters journalists. Assange helped post the video from a safe house in Iceland that he and the other WikiLeaks administrators called “the bunker.”
On 19 June 2012, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Assange married a woman named Teresa, and in 1989 they had a son, Daniel Assange, now a software designer.[14][26][238] The couple separated and initially disputed custody of their child.Assange was Daniel's primary carer for much of his childhood.[239] In an open letter to French President François Hollande, Assange stated his youngest child lives in France with his/her mother. He also said that his family had faced death threats and harassment due to his work, forcing them to change identities and reduce contact with him.
Quotes:-
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
True information does good.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love.
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.
Facts:-
Assange was reportedly born in 1971 in the city of Townsville, northeastern Australia. He was mostly homeschooled as a child, thanks in large part to his already peripatetic existence: by the time he was 14, he and his mother had reportedly moved 37 times.
After his mother’s relationship with a musician turned violent, Assange lived on the run between the ages of 11 and 16.
When Assange turned 16, he began hacking computers, reportedly assuming the name Mendax — from the Latin splendide mendax, or “nobly untruthful.”
In 1991, at the age of 20, Assange and some fellow hackers broke into the master terminal of Nortel, the Canadian telecom company. He was caught and pleaded guilty to 25 charges; six other charges were dropped. Citing Assange’s “intelligent inquisitiveness,” the judge sentenced him only to pay the Australian state a small sum in damages.
Assange studied math and physics at the University of Melbourne, though he dropped out when he became convinced that work by others in the department was being applied by defense contractors and militaries.
In 2006, Assange decided to found WikiLeaks in the belief that the free exchange of information would put an end to illegitimate governance. The website publishes material from sources, and houses its main server in Sweden, which has strong laws protecting whistle-blowers. Assange and others at WikiLeaks also occasionally hack into secure systems to find documents to expose. In December 2006, the website published its first document: a decision by the Somali Islamic Courts Union that called for the execution of government officials. WikiLeaks published a disclaimer that the document may not be authentic but “a clever smear by U.S. intelligence.”
The website went on to get several prominent scoops, including the release in April 2010 of a secret video taken in 2007 of a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq that killed a dozen civilians, including two unarmed Reuters journalists. Assange helped post the video from a safe house in Iceland that he and the other WikiLeaks administrators called “the bunker.”
On 19 June 2012, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that his government was considering the request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Assange married a woman named Teresa, and in 1989 they had a son, Daniel Assange, now a software designer.[14][26][238] The couple separated and initially disputed custody of their child.Assange was Daniel's primary carer for much of his childhood.[239] In an open letter to French President François Hollande, Assange stated his youngest child lives in France with his/her mother. He also said that his family had faced death threats and harassment due to his work, forcing them to change identities and reduce contact with him.
Quotes:-
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
True information does good.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love.
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.
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