Wikileaks & Assange - Hero or Dis-Info Agent? (Part 1)
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@steemtruth/deconstructing-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-his-childhood-in-a-cult
SOME VERY INTERESTING AND CERTAINLY VERY SUSPECT DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT ASSANGE'S EARLY NSA TIES IN THE FORM OF BEING FUNDED BY THE NSA / DARPA TO DO HIS GRADUATE WORK
SEE PART 2 IN THE LINK BELOW
Wikileaks & Assange - Hero or Dis-Info Agent? (Part 2)
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@steemtruth/wikileaks-and-assange-hero-or-dis-info-agent-part-2
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ANOTHER SOURCE WITH SIMILAR INFORMATION IS BELOW
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/01312524526/us-govt-funded-julian-assanges-crypto-research-then-pulled-plug.shtml
US Gov't Funded Julian Assange's Crypto Research... Then Pulled The Plug
from the it-all-comes-back-around dept
PandoDaily has a fascinating story from Peiter Zatko who had known Julian Assange way back in the day, and last ran into him at Chaos Congress in 2009 (Wikileaks was going strong at this point, but it was well before the release of the "Collateral Murder" video, the accusations of rape, the Ecuadorian embassy asylum and all that). They caught up over dinner and Assange revealed to Zatko how the US government had funded and then shut down his research into a crypto-file system which would allow you to reveal a way to decrypt it that just showed innocuous files, so you could be "forced" to decrypt something without actually revealing anything. Of course, as we pointed out not that long ago, the NSA has a bit of a history of trying to stifle crypto research if it fears that the crypto might be too good, and it sounds like Assange was a victim of that, despite not being American nor working at an American university:
Julian told me his graduate work had been funded by a US government grant, specifically NSA and DARPA money, which was supposed to be used for fundamental security research. It was a time when the Bush Administration and Department of Defense were seen to be classifying a great deal of fundamental research and pulling back on university funds. These universities were getting the message that they could no longer work on the research they had been conducting, and what they had already done was classified. In a Joseph Heller-like twist, they weren’t even allowed to know what it was they had already discovered.
According to Julian, the US government cast such a wide net that even general scientific research, whose output had always been published openly, was swept up in America’s secrecy nets. As you can imagine this did not sit well with Julian, because his work had also been funded by one of these fundamental research funding lines and yanked.
Zatko notes that this experience is a big part of what drove Assange to dedicate his life to openness and helping to expose organizations that tried to keep the public ignorant of important things. While the crux of the article is that the US government inadvertently "created" Wikileaks, that seems like a bit of an exaggeration. However, it is somewhat interesting to know that Assange's work was, at one point, funded by the US government.
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THE ABOVE ARTICLE LED TO THE RELATED SOURCES BELOW
https://pando.com/2013/09/14/how-the-us-government-inadvertently-created-wikileaks/
How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks
By Peiter Zatko
written on September 14, 2013
I was in Germany for Chaos Congress 2009, a hacker conference, and after attending a series of talks I was headed back to my hotel when I spotted Julian Assange. This predated my working as a project manager at DARPA as a hacker-in-residence, if you will. It was also before Wikileaks released the video “Collateral Murder” and hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, the Swedish rape allegations, and Julian ending up a virtual prisoner, holed up in Ecuador’s diplomatic mission in London.
Given that I hadn't seen Julian in more than a decade, I greeted him, and we agreed to grab some dinner and catch up. After reminiscing about the old gang – he and I had been part of the same hacker "milieu," as Julian would say – I asked why he had skipped out on the hacking scene to form Wikileaks.
Last I heard Julian had left to study mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne. He was working on a "duress" based crypto-file system, also known as the "rubber hose" file system. The theory was that if your disk was encrypted and someone threatened to beat you with a rubber hose unless you decrypted it, you could fool him by decrypting a secondary innocuous file system without revealing the true content of your still cloaked files. The baddies would be convinced they had what they wanted and let you go while you would keep your secrets. (There’s a problem with this, of course. If the baddies think you have a rubber hose file system, even if you decrypt your drive they may think you’re holding out on them and continue to beat the crap out of you. But I digress.)
Julian told me his graduate work had been funded by a US government grant, specifically NSA and DARPA money, which was supposed to be used for fundamental security research. It was a time when the Bush Administration and Department of Defense were seen to be classifying a great deal of fundamental research and pulling back on university funds. These universities were getting the message that they could no longer work on the research they had been conducting, and what they had already done was classified. In a Joseph Heller-like twist, they weren't even allowed to know what it was they had already discovered.
According to Julian, the US government cast such a wide net that even general scientific research, whose output had always been published openly, was swept up in America’s secrecy nets. As you can imagine this did not sit well with Julian, because his work had also been funded by one of these fundamental research funding lines and yanked.
So here you have a non-US citizen at a foreign university doing graduate work studies, and the United States government came barreling in and not only snuffed out the funding and killed his studies, it also barred him from knowing what it was he had been funded to research.
It was at that moment, Julian told me, that he decided he would devote himself to exposing organizations that attempted to keep secrets and withhold information in an effort keep the masses ignorant and disadvantaged.
So you see, depending on who you ask, the US government actually helped create of Wikileaks. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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In my humble opinion, I think that the above article, whose author is Julian Assange's friend who had worked for the US government, as the Part 2 posted article indicates, somehow puts this undisputed NSA/DARPA connection with Assange on a more exonerating light.
As noted, the article was written by Assange's friend who had revealed the Assange NSA/DARPA connection and who, by his association with Assange, he ended up being accused of the same accusations as Assange was. It follows that he also had a motive to make claims, and / or a modified presentation of his past claims, in a manner that would serve to exonerate both, himself and Assange. As a result of their mutual motive to engage in damage control, one could argue that this article, which made minor but clever and significant modifications, was a strategic damage control move, which, as it appears to me, has achieved its intended purpose to exonerate both of them.
I have watched the well done documentary at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3IW1GEuRQU
Wikileaks Made by the N.S.A. - Full Documentary
I have posted it into this Wikileaks collection in the past, along with other referenced material. I do agree with most of their positions, however, this NSA /DARPA connection can be viewed as a strategic damage control move ONLY because of Assange's suspect behavior in collective matters such as:
(a) the odd, degrading and suspect comments he made in order to cover up the fact that the 911 attacks were an inside job and courtesy of the US Government in concert with Zionists,
(b)-the odd and suspect comments he made to cover up the truth behind the annual Bilderberg meetings of the corrupt ruling Elite,
(c)-the odd and suspect actions he engaged in and comments he made after October 2016 and during the Reddit Ask Me Anything interview,
(d)-the suspect "Limited Hangout" practices that he appeared to have been engaging in,
(e)-the protective disclosures he made on Israel,
(f)-the Wikileaks Board and funding information,...etc...
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Wanted by the CIA: Julian Assange - Wikileaks founder
By Matthew Bell
July 19 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Queensland_University#Notable_alumni_.26_past_students
https://www.sutori.com/story/julian-assange-origins
Julian Assange Origins
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/searching-for-assange/news-story/8affd24c79f16f1cbca41e1db1a63dd0
Searching for Assange
https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/wikileaks-mastermind-usq-university-julian-assange/725740/
Assange studied at CQU
18th Dec 2010 2:00 AM
https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/top-ten-which-famous-faces-graduated-from-cquniver/3144591/
NEWS
TOP TEN: Which famous faces graduated from CQUniversity?
17th Feb 2017 6:00 AM
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130725/00120423937/yes-nsa-has-always-hated-encryption.shtml
Yes, The NSA Has Always Hated Encryption
from the like-kryptonite-to-spies dept
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AS I OFTEN SAID..I AM AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CRITIC
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@steemtruth/deconstructing-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-his-childhood-in-a-cult
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