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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