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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by plandis on Friday December 10, 2021 @04:30PM (#29515684)
> In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for (and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs. In another communication, Assange told the LulzSec leader that the most impactful release of hacked materials would be from the CIA, NSA, or the New York Times. WikiLeaks obtained and published emails from a data breach committed against an American intelligence consulting company by an “Anonymous” and LulzSec-affiliated hacker. According to that hacker, Assange indirectly asked him to spam that victim company again.

> In addition, the broadened hacking conspiracy continues to allege that Assange conspired with Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer.

10 seconds of perusing the indictment against Assange alleges he actively did things other than merely publish data that was given to him.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by belorn on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:29PM (#29517532)
> leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI)

Is this the same hacker who has gone on public record that he got paid by the FBI to lie , and as a result was later redacted from the court documents?

Paying for false witnesses is such a classic and really makes for a strong case.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by elif on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:34PM (#29546190)
using an indictment as a form of evidence is intellectually bankrupt.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by elif on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:56AM (#29552949)
Using the language of the prosecution's summary of a classified indictment issued by a state shown to have orchestrated 2 failed false indictments on this individual in the last decade particularly does not convey considerable confidence.
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