Assange is a hacker and WikiLeaks is a start-up though not in the usual money-making PG-esque business sense. The site had - and I guess it still has - some no

Assange is a hacker and WikiLeaks is a start-up though not in the usual money-making PG-esque business sense. The site had - and I guess it still has - some non-trivial (at least at such scale of pressure and exposure) operational issues: DoS attacks, denials of DNS service, hosting refusals, bank-accounts freezings, institutional threatening reactions from the mightiest states in the world... ...and yet it's still on-line under different URLs and mirrors. Isn't that a true hackers' achievement worthy for discussing here at length? I'm not quite sure, of course, but maybe hundreds of future PhDs in the history and political sciences - getting their degrees in the very same elite universities whose alumni now rule in US & UK - will be indebted to this man and this project that shed light on all the data. Just think about that.