“Any official who has called for Assange to be treated as a terrorist or enemy combatant should be seriously considering stepping down from office,” he wrote in December 2010.
When you collaborate with Russian intelligence agencies to hurt Western democracies, what else would you call him?
Sounds like Assange was the guest from hell:
Over the years, the WikiLeaks chief clearly grew too complacent with his surroundings. He would skateboard at night, play music extremely loudly, and even walk around in his underwear, according to NBC News. It’s reminiscent of Home Alone, except that it wasn’t his home, he wasn’t alone, and he was the (alleged) criminal.
But his behavior was also downright rude — and more than a little gross. He barely maintained his own personal hygiene, leading the smell from his room to infest the rest of the embassy. He refused to clean up or even feed his cat. And he almost came to blows with the mission’s security staff. As if that wasn’t enough, he acted out and on at least one occasion smeared his feces on the wall.
Why Ecuador ended asylum for 'spoiled brat' Julian Assange
In the hours before he went to the airport Thursday, Bini sent a tweet warning of a “witch hunt”
He then denied knowing anything about the broom rider who wrote “Överlämna Moreno” in the sky over Quito.
Empty Wheel has her razor sharp focus on the Assange “arrest.” There’s so much more to this story.
Why wait around for “the Report” when there’s the Assange case to read about.
How long will it be until all of the US’s strings are tangled and it’s puppet’s start to interfere with one another?
Dumb question I know, but, how does a hacker claim they are for digital privacy? That just doesn’t make any sense.
Where do these guys get the money to fly all over the world?
It’s funny how these Wikileaks guys profess to be so concerned about corruption, but somehow never manage to expose any secrets about one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. I wonder why that is.
Again with the Russians they seem to have their fingers in lot of pies.
The term “hacker” sometimes means “person who breaks into computer systems” and sometimes means “person who is incredibly good at programming computers”. Sometimes hackers (second meaning) will promote the term “cracker” for the first meaning. This is complicated by the fact that people who are really good at computer security will spend a lot of their time breaking into computer systems so that they can help people make those systems more secure.
(And further complicated by some of those people breaking into the systems of folks they think are evil, including folks who malevolently compile lots of personal information. So you could have hackers breaking in to facebook’s files, for example, either as part of an entirely authorize effort to improve their security or as part of an unauthorized effort to bring public attention to how much supposedly private information facebook collects and delivers to third parties. Meanwhile, crackers would be breaking in so that they could get that information without paying for it, and sell it to a different set of third parties…)
Excellent summary. I would also add that IT security folks draw a distinction between “White Hat” and “Black Hat” security folks, so “Black Hat hackers” try to break in and “Whit Hat hackers” try to stop them.
https://www.howtogeek.com/157460/hacker-hat-colors-explained-black-hats-white-hats-and-gray-hats/
Curious. Why put apostrophes in “its” and “puppets”?
They got pictures of President Moreno eating lobster in bed. Moreno might as well resign now.