A virtual representation of the Ghostnuts Podcast #60 which can be found at https://ghostnutspodcast.com
Julian Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks. In 1987, aged 16, Assange began hacking under the name Mendax. He and two others, known as “Trax” and “Prime Suspect”, formed a hacking group they called “the International Subversives”. In September 1991, Assange was discovered hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications corporation. The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange’s phone line (he was using a modem), raided his home at the end of October and eventually charged him in 1994 with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. In December 1996, he pleaded guilty to 24 charges (the others were dropped) and was ordered to pay reparations of A$2,100 and released on a good behaviour bond. In 1993, Assange gave technical advice to the Victoria Police Child Exploitation Unit that assisted in prosecutions.[55][56] In the same year, he was involved in starting one of the first public Internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network; And in 1994 he commenced his career in programming and became author and co-author on numerous programs. He did publicise a patent granted to the National Security Agency in August 1999, for voice-data harvesting technology: “This patent should worry people. Everyone’s overseas phone calls are or may soon be tapped, transcribed and archived in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency.”
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years. Some of the most notable leaks they have ‘split’ are:
US Army manual for Guantanamo prison camp
570,000 messages sent on 9/11
Video of US helicopter fire killing civilians in Iraq
Iraq and Afghanistan war documents
State Department Cables (Cablegate)
Stolen 2016 emails
Juliann was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.
He sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.
After his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.
On 2 April 2019, Ecuador’s president Moreno said that Assange had violated the terms of his asylum, after photos surfaced on the internet linking Moreno to a corruption scandal. WikiLeaks said it had acquired none of the published material, and that it merely reported on a corruption investigation against Moreno by Ecuador’s legislature. WikiLeaks reported a source within the Ecuadorian government saying that, due to the controversy, an agreement had been reached to expel Assange from the embassy and place him in the custody of UK police. According to Assange’s father, the revoking of Assange’s asylum was connected to an upcoming decision by the International Monetary Fund to grant Ecuador a loan. On 11 April 2019 the Ecuadorian government invited the Metropolitan Police into the embassy, and they arrested Assange on the basis of a US extradition warrant. Moreno stated that Ecuador withdrew Assange’s asylum after he interfered in Ecuador’s domestic affairs, calling Assange a “miserable hacker”. British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt and prime minister Theresa May applauded Moreno’s actions, while Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, said the arrest “has got nothing to do with Australia, it is a matter for the US”.
In November 2018, Pamela Anderson, a close friend and regular visitor of Assange, gave an interview in which she asked the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to defend Assange. Morrison rejected the request with a response Anderson considered “smutty”. Anderson responded that “rather than making lewd suggestions about me, perhaps you should instead think about what you are going to say to millions of Australians when one of their own is marched in an orange jumpsuit to Guantanamo Bay – for publishing the truth. You can prevent this.”
She also quoted “My Julian is the most intelligent, interesting, and informed man in existence,” she wrote in a social-media post. “Yes, I think he’s quite sexy.” She gushed that he intellectually stimulates her more than all her “ex-husbands and lovers combined.”
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