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Early life
Assange was born in the north Queensland, city of Townsville.
His parents were Christina Ann Assange and John Shipton.
He attended many schools, including Goolmamangar Primary School in new South Wales (During 1979-1983) and Townsville State High School, as well as being schooled at home. -
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Hacking career
Julian Assange began hacking under the name Mendax. He and two others, known as "Trax" and "Prime Susoect" formed an ethical hacking group they called the International Subversives.
During this time he hacked into the Pentagon and others U.S Deparment Defences facilities, MILNET, the U.S. Navy NASA, and Australia's Overseas Telecomunications Commission; City Bank, Lockhead Martin, Motorola, Panasonic, and Xerox; and the Australian National University, La Trobe University amoung others. -
Julian's Charges
In 1991, Assange was discovered hacking into the Melbourn master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecomunicationalist corporation.
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Julian Goes to Jail
He went to jail because he hacked various computers in an Australian University to detect security issues. He was in a gruoup called international subversives and he hacked with the name "Mendax" -
Julian Assange's university studies
He studied programming, mathematics, and phisycs at Central Queensland University (1994) and the University of Melbourne (2003-2006) but didn't complete a degree. -
Assange Founds his First Software
Invented "Rubberhose Deniable Encryption", a cryptografic concept based on GNU/Linux programes. It was designed to be a "tool for human rights workers that need to protect information from people, such as activists's lists and violations". -
Founds Wikileaks
In 2006, Assange and 9 other members found Wikileaks, an international online NON-PROFIT journalistic organization, which published secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous sources. -
Wins Amnesty International Media Award
He wins the award from the British in 2009 for exposing extrajudical assassinations in Kenya with research Crying Blood. -
Afghanistan Docs
Wikileaks releases classified US Military Documents on the war in Afghanistan revealing on details of civilian victims and links between Pakistan and the Taliban -
Julian's Rights Start Being Taken Away
He lost his passport and it was immediately canceled. -
Person of The Year!
In 2010, Jullian was awarded with the Time's Magazine: Person of the Year! -
Sexual Assault Controversy
In late 2010, Assange discovered he had other legal problems to worry about. He had been under investigation by the Swedish police since early August, in connection with two sexual assault cases. -
Asylum at London
The Ecuatorian Minister, Ricardo Patino, announced that he would give a diplomatic asylum to Julian. Since that day, he lives at the Ecuatorian Embassy located in London, England. -
Julian's life in Danger
UK warns Ecuador that it can close politic relations with them if they don"t hand over Assange to the British Police. -
Top Things Wikileaks has done
9/11 logs, Death Logs in Kenya and Afghanistan
Sarah Palin's hack, Iraq Apache Helicopter Attack, Climate Research Unit Emails, Diplomats as Spies, Saudis Want US to bomb Iran -
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