Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request
As far as I can tell, the case for this basically hinges on the United States ability to prove Julian Assange is some sort of hacker, not a journalist.  Assange hasnt written any code, or published&#x2F;executed any exploits, so this seems like a pretty tenuous charge.  You&#x27;d have better luck prosecuting someone like Moxie Marlinspike for hacking.<p>Then again the US has a rather schizophrenic approach to prosecuting &#x27;hackers.&#x27;  Aaron Schwartz was looking at 35 years prison time for what basically amounted to a wget loop, or he could give the state its prosecutorial pound of flesh and plead guilty for six months house arrest.  Faced with this he took his own life in 2013.<p>Kevin Mitnick was once damned to prison for actual hacking, and was sentenced to a paltry 4 years in jail for hacking some of the largest telecom providers in the world.  These days he runs a security company that has the US government as a client.