Vipsu@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go freeEnglish
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5 months agoAssange is a citizen of Australia and since The United States is known for spying on its allies the act of exposing US informants would be closer to serving ones own country than act of treason.
Hopefully he can safely return to his home country and take a long deserved rest from this all.
It’ll probably take a decade or more to recover mentally from all the shit he has gone through.
I just hope he takes his time to recover and passes the wikileaks torch as all the accumulated resentment and paranoia will probably take a while to shed off. Going all out on anti-american frenzy on social media and whatnot would likely lead to undesirable outcome for him in public eye.
Snowden revelations and Wikileaks have made E2EE pretty much a standard for most internet services. People are also far less naive when it comes to online privacy which has spawned bunch of regulations like GDPR and bunch of investigations on how well services and products handle information security.