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Julian Assange reunites with family as he arrives in Canberra (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Remember folks his own country didn't stand up for him!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

The prime minister has apparently been pushing to get him out, and has apparently been mentioning him at every meeting with the US. It is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that was some bullshit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has landed in Australia, ending the former fugitive's decade-long diplomatic saga.

As he stepped off the plane, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking from parliament, welcomed his return.

"Earlier tonight I was pleased to speak to Mr Assange to welcome him home and had the opportunity to ask him about his health and have my first discussion with him," he said.

Mr Albanese said Assange expressed "praise" for the Australian government's efforts in returning him home, saying it took patient diplomacy.

Earlier on Wednesday, Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy with a sentence of "time already served", in a deal that concluded the United States' pursuit of him for more than a decade.

The US had sought Assange's extradition from the United Kingdom since 2012 over the publication of classified US military intelligence through WikiLeaks.

The original article contains 266 words, the summary contains 140 words. Saved 47%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

NSFW thought: Damn you wouldn't wanna be sharing a house with those 2 tonight!

[+] [email protected] -9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the informants names he purposefully published who were surely executed after will never get to go home. Fuck this guy, sincerely.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The US court he was in literally said they hadn't found any evidence of that. It was a core part of this deal that no harm was found.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This didn't happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.

Name one person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must have been a ton of informants he was protecting in the RNC email dump he chose not to release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hey now, stay on narrative - shhhh! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

IIRC a password providing access to some of the full, unredacted documents was leaked, so despite Wikileaks vetting the documents some names did still get out. It was fairly quickly scrubbed and its believed that nobody was harmed in the end, but it got pretty close.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have to correct you there. The full unredacted cables are still online on various sites. Including cryptome. They have been online this entire time. Yes, no-one was harmed, but not because they put the cat back in the bag (you can't). Once other sites had published it, WikiLeaks republished the full trove as a risk-mitigation measure so that the compromised names could quickly make themselves aware that their name was out there. WL also contacted the State Department to try and warn them of the risk. There is footage of this.

The US spent tons of money trying to find anyone who'd been harmed by Manning's leaks but found no-one.

WikiLeaks had been drip-feeding big stories based on the cables. The compromise of the encryption key to the full unredacted archive by Luke Harding and David Leigh of the Guardian put a stop to this unfortunately. They stupidly published the encryption key in their book. Once people found the encrypted file online it didn't take long to put 2 and 2 together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That was an editor at The Guardian, David Leigh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone verify if this exchange is factually correct?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You could read David Leigh's book, in which he published the full decryption key: https://www.amazon.com/WikiLeaks-Inside-Julian-Assanges-Secrecy/dp/161039061X

That's literally how he leaked it.

The wikipedia article on it has the whole "he said - she said":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assange%27s_War_on_Secrecy

Including the lie that is frequently parroted about Assange not caring about people dying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's true, but Wikileaks does share at least some of the blame for making the encrypted documents accessible. They're not immune to leaks themselves and should handle these incredibly sensitive documents accordingly. In this case, they failed to do so and an external party triggered a leak. Wikileaks should probably have deleted the documents alltogether.