Wikileaks' Julian Assange: The most dangerous man in the world? - Telegraph: "WikiLeaks remains something of a mystery. Who runs it? How does it work? And what will it do next?It is Assange whose face adorns the WikiLeaks home page. Groomed and suited, he looks like an American news anchor. Strange is the word often used to describe him; arrogant, too. But bright, also.
“I am the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, original coder, organiser, financier and all the rest,” he once said to a critic. “If you have a problem with me, p--- off.”
Born in Queensland, Australia in 1971, Assange has always been a nomad. His mother, herself a rebel, moved him 37 times before the age of 14. Little is known about his father. Home-schooled, he developed an early obsession with computers and, as the web developed, he became a hacker, earning a criminal record at the age of 20 for breaking into the system of a Canadian telecoms company. The break up of his marriage and the ensuing battle for access to his child inspired in him a lasting mistrust of state power. Wikileaks, an internet repository for leaked information, born in 2007, was the result."
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