Julian Paul Assange was born 39 years ago in Queensland, Australia. He is the publisher, hackers and Internet activist. His name is becoming the world spotlight lately because he made the site, Wikileaks, managed to obtain secret documents the U.S. superpower. The amount is unsparing, which is suppose to 250 thousand documents. All contents of the document will dikuak to the public through the site little by little.
Julian less happy childhood. His mother, Christine, married again to a musician's controversial New Age movement. Julian rarely get little formal education. even because his stepfather was abusive, she and her mother had to flee and nomadic life. Noted he had moved home 37 times before the age of 14 years. Home schooling is not new for him.
When growing up, he followed the lectures at several universities in Australia. In 1987, at the age of 16 years, Julian began his career in computer hacker. He uses the code name 'Mendax'. Together with two other colleagues, he founded a group called the International Subversives. Julian and his friends is not the destroyer program or site. They stole the data from those sites that are 'confidential' and distribute them to the public.
The young group had access to a number of prestigious universities in Australia. Even reaching down to foreign countries, one of them access to Nortel, a telecommunications company in Canada. But because it is still 'green', Assange captured in 1991, and found guilty of 24 charges of his hacking activities. But that year he was free to pay a fine of AUS $ 2,100
In 2006, Assange along with five others founded the site called Wikileaks. Assange act as a spokesperson for the site, therefore, only he himself was the only one identified as a high-ranking Wikileaks. The initial purpose of this site is to dismantle the corporate behavior that is considered unethical, as well as helping to eradicate corruption in public institutions.
Wikileaks is actually noble motto of 'Transparency / openness', it can be seen on the site, namely the paragraph that reads "Transparency create better lives for all people. Good supervision will reduce corruption and strengthen democracy in all social institutions, including governments, corporations and other organizations, "
Wikileaks is a site voluntarily. Julian Assange and his friends did not receive any money from their actions this. All costs derived from the Wikileaks site visitors. But the results are not playing games, Assange once said that Wikileaks has brought together a government secret documents more than finding all the media in the world even if the findings are combined into a single package.
He has been involved in publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, where he won the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award. He has also published material on toxic waste dumping in Africa, Church of Scientology manual, procedures Guantanamo Bay, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer. In 2010, he published classified details about the U.S. involvement in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then, on November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks and five fellow media began publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cable. The White House called the action Assange's reckless and dangerous.
As a result of his actions, Julian Assange have to stay moving. Perhaps it is natural for her, considering the roots of 'nomads' who has. He had been staying at the airport. Sometimes he was in Australia, Kenya and Tanzania. Finally, Assange reportedly rented a house in Iceland, March.
But Julian Assange not a mysterious figure. Himself often attended interviews with leading media, such as Al Jazeera, MSNBC, Democracy Now! and The Colbert Report.
Julian Assange last appeared in public in early July, in the event of the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. Its presence was not physically, but use technology through Video Conference. This is reasonable because from then on Wikileaks has started leaking U.S. secrets to the public, certainly not safe for him and his colleagues to set foot in these superpowers.
Wikilieaks received numerous awards, including from Amnesty International media award in 2009, Index on Cencorship Economist Award in 2008, Sam Adams Award in 2010.
Julian Assange did not escape from the award. He was honored as one of 25 visionaries who will change the world version of the Utne Reader magazine. Not only that, Time magazine had pinned the prestigious title of Person Of The Year 2010 for this blond-haired man.
Since the last show in June last, Assange never again appear nowhere until now. He allegedly was hiding. Assange become the number one fugitive by Interpol at the request of Sweden. But not for the affair leaked documents. Assange targeted for alleged rape, and sexual abuse in Sweden. Not a few are speculating, Assange accused of deliberately so, because ulahnya disclose confidential documents.
The impact of these actions are felt Julian Assange. State of America as though we were discouraged to face action on this one man. Not only that, other superpowers such as China, Japan, and even to Indonesia also participated in fire beard. How not, it is quite possible in these secret documents are the things that deviate sepert abuse of power principle. Whatever happens, obviously Julian Assange has created a new revolution in the field of media transparency.
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