> He's being prosecuted for allegedly extracting a password from a hash value They don't claim Assange extracted a password. They just claim that Assange said

> He's being prosecuted for allegedly extracting a password from a hash value They don't claim Assange extracted a password. They just claim that Assange said in the chat "no luck so far"! That is, that he wrote to Manning that he tried. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1153481/download https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1153481... The indictment is "conspiracy" with Manning. So there's certainly something to back up the claim from this title https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-11-2019-1.5093429/julian-assange-s-arrest-is-a-vendetta-not-justice-says-friend-vaughan-smith-1.5093432 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-11... namely, that "Assange's arrest is 'a vendetta, not justice'" For more context, at the moment this news from ca one month ago have even more sense: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/08/chelsea-manning-judge-jails-wikileaks-case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/08/chelsea-mann... "Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify to grand jury in WikiLeaks case"