Julian Assange is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks and
the author of Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
(OR Books, 2012). An original contributor to the cypherpunk mailing
list, Assange is the author of numerous software projects in line
with the cypherpunk philosophy, including the Rubberhose encryption
system and the original code for WikiLeaks. An "ethical hacker" in
his teens, and subsequently an activist and internet service
provider to Australia during the 1990s, he is the co-author (with
Sulette Dreyfus) of Underground, a history of the international
hacker movement. Julian is currently a refugee under the protection
of the government of Ecuador, and lives in the Ecuadorian embassy
in London.
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