Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all

He’s been called everything from a freedom fighter to a narcissistic rapist. Now, after defying extradition for nearly a decade, Julian Assange is preparing to face his judgment day in a British court – with an unlikely collection of supporters in his corner.

Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all 7a0fad03d31642cc2e39a1f9d4e6759a60dc9978

Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all 7a0fad03d31642cc2e39a1f9d4e6759a60dc9978

Once upon a time, Julian Assange was a brown-haired youth living in Melbourne suburbia. In many ways, he was an average 20-year-old: mistrustful of authority, convinced of his own brilliance, clever but not wise. He spent a lot of time lying around in a messy house and staying up late on his computer.

These computing activities, however, were not average at all. In 1991, when most people were playing around on Commodore 64s and Ataris, Assange – using the moniker “Mendax” (from Horace’s phrase splendide mendax, “nobly untruthful”) – was part of a small group of hackers breaking into, among other places, multinational telecom company Nortel’s master terminal in Melbourne. Assange wasn’t there to damage the system: he later described the pleasure of electronic infiltration as like “standing in a cathedral at midnight” – a kind of forbidden, essentially harmless delight. But one night, wandering in Nortel’s system, he was discovered by an administrator.

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Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all

Love him or hate him or simply don't care, Julian Assange's fight for freedom concerns us all

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