Over the weekend, here in Australia and in the UK, thousands of well-meaning protesters lined up to support calls for the release of a high-profile computer hacker named Julian Assange.
Assange has been an internationally renowned hacker, active since he was 16 years of age — using the ‘handle’ Mendax and pleading guilty in 1996 to 24 charges of hacking into the Melbourne computers of Canadian telecommunications company Nortel. He was fined and released on a good behaviour bond.
