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Julian Assange — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1971 · Australia · Publisher & cypherpunk

Julian Assange

Radical transparency

Cryptography against state secrecy.

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Governance−90
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The cypherpunk-turned-publisher whose WikiLeaks weaponised cryptography and mass disclosure against state secrecy — a crypto-anarchist project aimed at the powerful.

social

Provocative anti-authoritarian individualist.

economic

Market-agnostic; the cause is information and power.

governance

Used leaks and crypto to attack state secrecy and control.

Notable for
  • Founded WikiLeaks
  • Cypherpunk movement
  • Mass-disclosure publishing
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