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Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
Julian Assange
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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
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That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.
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It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
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Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.
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Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.
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I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
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Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.
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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.
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As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
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That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
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