Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial
Except ... factual impossibility is not a defense to a charge of conspiracy, or indeed most charges of inchoate offenses.<p>If you have a gun, and we agree that I will shoot someone with it, but it turns out (unbeknownst to either of us) that the gun has in fact been permanently deactivated ... that's still conspiracy to commit murder.