Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and an Internet activist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, the wistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Assange founded wikileaks in 2006 and serves on its advisory board. Assange worked as computer programmer and was a hacker during his youth. In 2010 he published classified details about American involvement in Afganistan and Iraq wars. On 28 november 2010 wikileaks and its print media partnera began publishing secret US diplomat cables. Assange has been praised and condemned for his work on Wikileaks. In 1987 after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax".
He and other two hackers formed a group which they named as International Subversives. The Australian Federal Police became aware of this group and set up "Operation Weather" to investigate their hacking. It took 3 years to bring the case to the court, where he was charged with 31 hacking and related crimes. Despite representing hacking as victimless crime, he is pleaded guilty with 25 charges of hacking. He was released on bond for good conduct after being fined A$2100. In December 2010 Assange sold the publishing reghts to his autobiography for over 1 million pounds.
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