“Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password by stating that he 'had not luck so far,'' reads the indictment.
That’s the claim made by federal prosecutors who unsealed an indictment lodged against Julian Assange, the 47-year-old face and founder of the notorious secret document-dumping website WikiLeaks.
Portion of April 11, 2019, unsealed indictment against Julian Assange shows his struggle with a password back in 2010 while relying on U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning . U.S. Department of Justice The Eastern District of Virginia has filed an extradition warrant for one charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11 in London, England Jack Taylor/Getty ImagesFollowing this exchange, Manning continued to aid Assange by using a Defense computer to “download the U.S. Department of State cables that Wikileaks later released publicly.”
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