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About

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

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BIRTHDAY
July 3, 1971 (age 53)

ZODIAC SIGN
Cancer

BORN
Townsville, Australia (Map)

EDUCATION

  • CQUniversity Rockhampton North (Map)
  • University of Melbourne (Map)

POLITICAL VIEWS
Anarchist

Nationality
Australian, Ecuadorian

HEIGHT
6ft 2 (188 cm)

WEIGHT
75 kg (165 lbs)

DIET
Unknown

EYE COLOR
Light brown

HAIR COLOR
Gray

HANDEDNESS
Right-handed

TATTOOS
None

NET WORTH
$400 Thousand (2020)

Faith
Atheist

languages spoken
English, Spanish

IQ
170

Personal Quotes

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it – which is sometimes something that’s quite hard to do, when you’re talking about giant databases of information – release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

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.

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal – personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets – you know, your records with your doctor; that’s a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

We don’t have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we’re presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

That’s a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we’re getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don’t have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

Favorite Things

book
Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State

food
Seafood linguine

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pet
Cat

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