Until a genius hits the wall… 11 years chased by beauty

Round 2 has entered the pursuit of the US government and Julian Assange, 49, the founder of the disclosure site’WikiLeaks’.

On the 4th (local time), the British court rejected the US prosecution’s request for repatriation. The London Central Criminal Court decided that if Assange was repatriated to the United States, he would likely make an extreme choice. They say signs of danger have been found everywhere, including recently telling medical staff about suicide thoughts.

Assange’s bad relationship with the US government goes back to 2010. It started with the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents. In April of that year, video footage of the US military’s killing of civilians in Iraq was released.

The entire world was overturned by this document, and it triggered the withdrawal of US troops from overseas. The U.S. prosecutors immediately nominated Eosanji as the first-class wanted target, and the chasing after 11 years of chasing began.

Assange was born in 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, northern Australia. I use the name Assange after the last name of my stepfather who remarried with my mother when I was one year old. His ancestors were immigrants to Australia in the 19th century. The maternal line came from Scotland and Ireland to Australia, and it is prevalent that the name Eosanji is derived from the name of the Chinese person Ah Sang.

Is it because of the blood of immigrants? Since childhood, Eosanji has enjoyed the life of an’outsider’ revolving outside the mainstream society. I have never received a formal school education because I wandered here and there with my parents who run the nomadic theater. Instead, he gained knowledge by reading books in the library, and he is said to have shown a talent for science.

Even when I became an adult, the wandering continued. They changed their phone number and e-mail address and suddenly disappeared, causing people around them to worry. He described his childhood as “a sensitive child who did not fit into the dominant culture,” in an interview with the American magazine New Yorker in June 2010.

It seems to have grown up without worries, but the home environment was always unstable. When Eosanji was 8 years old, her mother divorced and remarried repeatedly, and she had to hide for five years to escape the bullying of her stepfather, a pagan group. During the fleeing life, computers were Assange’s only haven. I taught myself programming, and when I was 16, I started making money by creating a website.

Hacking, where he had to hide himself, was attractive to him as a hermit. He worked as a professional hacker by creating a hacking group’International Destructor’ with a hacking ID called Mendax. But how to get caught if the tail is long. He was caught hacking a Canadian telecommunications company in 1991 and was brought to court on charges of 31 hacking.

Assanji had a wife and a son who had met and raised love at the age of 16. When I was struggling with the trial, even my family left my side, and I was seriously hurt mentally.

He is said to have developed a sense of problems with individuals, society, and hierarchies through a time of chaos. And These thoughts became the starting point of’WikiLeaks’, an exposure site for information war. He stayed at home for several months and devoted himself to developing the exposure site. When I came up with a clever idea, I took notes everywhere, whether on the wall or the door, and I didn’t sleep or eat.

In December 2006, WikiLeaks was born. By encrypting all reports, the reporter is completely hidden, and there are more than 20 servers around the world so that the content once uploaded can never be erased.

It is a sex crime charge that has caught up with Assange’s thoroughness in everything. She was arrested in the UK in 2010 for rape of two women in Sweden. The Ecuadorian embassy in London, hiding from the repatriation to Sweden, began a lifeless asylum.

He was confident and calm, but he grew tired of the long exile of 7 years. She endured an isolated life in a room of about 9 pyeong, suffered from chronic lung disease, and suffered from anxiety and depression. He did not hesitate to behave strangely due to mental stress. The actions of riding a skateboard in a cramped room and stooling on the walls of the embassy also shocked the embassy.

The level of exposure has also gradually increased. The Ecuadorian President’s personal information was leaked, and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal in the 2016 U.S. presidential election took place in all directions. Meanwhile, she fell in love with a lawyer she met at the embassy and gave birth to two children.

Ecuador’s embassy, ​​which reached its limit, withdrew Assange’s protection, ending his exile in February 2019. Upon leaving the embassy, ​​he was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating bail conditions and serving in England. At the time of the arrest, the appearance of unknowingly old and gibberish shocked me.

A genius hacker, a just revolutionary, a geek with a lack of sociality, and a’gwanjong’ drunk on popularity (seed of interest). Eosanji has generated numerous controversies over the past 11 years and is receiving such mixed reviews.

We avoided repatriation right away, but the US appealed again and again led to a court battle. Since all of Assange’s claims were not accepted in the previous ruling, there is a possibility that it will be overturned in the appeal trial. The bail request was also dismissed. The world is paying attention to how the end of the long and long chase between the United States and Assange running away while claiming freedom of the press and claiming freedom of the press will end.

Reporter Lee Min-jung [email protected]