Julian Assange's hacking offences revealed in Australian court documents !!
Jan 19, 2011
IN 1991, using just a "simple, basic computer" from his home in suburban Melbourne, a young Julian Assange created a program that allowed him to access about 11,000 computers belonging to the giant Canadian telecommunications company Northern Telecom. New details of the WikiLeaks founder's early computer hacking-related offences have emerged in court documents released toThe Australian under an application to the Victorian County Court. The documents include a transcript of Mr Assange's 1996 pre-sentencing hearing for 24 computer-related offences, including accessing a server of Northern Telecom. While offering an insight into his unstable childhood, the documents also show the controversial website creator already displayed remarkable computer skills in his early adult life. In its submissions to County Court sentencing Judge Leslie Ross in December 1996, the prosecution described Mr Assange, then 25, as a far more sophisticated hacker than two other men char...