Friday, December 17, 2010

Hypocrisy = Julian Assange

Portrait of the hacker as a paranoid and secret young man
"But if Assange revelled in obtaining other people's confidential information, he took a different view if he suspected someone was revealing confidential information about him.

The information Assange sought to protect was the fact he had told Lowenstein that he ''technically'' faced ''290 years inside'' if convicted on charges he then faced of hacking into academic, government and telecommunications computer systems.

Lowenstein, in turn, had told an associate, who relayed the information back to Assange.

Incensed at what he saw as a breach of confidence, the young hacker sat at his computer in the early hours of a Melbourne spring morning, 16 years ago.

Assange composed a formal lecture to the filmmaker, on the subject of ''Non-disclosure - lack thereof''. ''It has come to my attention,'' Assange wrote, ''that you have been disclosing not only the contents of some of our recent conversations, but also the nature of my association with them. DON'T.''

He said the information he had given Lowenstein was ''off the record'', designed to assist the filmmaker in his research into computer crime, given by someone who is ''familiar with the field''.

''Mentioning a source's information is one thing. Mentioning a source's name is another. Mentioning the association between the two to ANYONE is likely to get you into deep water.''

Assange, of course, is now the one in deep trouble - specifically in Sweden for alleged sexual offences, but more broadly for revealing sources, their information and the association between the two.
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