He won't win any friends in Oz
Assange is good at promoting himself but most people see him for what he is, unscrupulous.
The early hacker activist life of Julian Assange is set to be immortalised in a television drama for Australia’s Network Ten. The two hour telemovie called Underground will be directed and written by Robert Connolly, the director of Balibo. Assange will be played by acting newcomer Alex Williams while Rachel Griffiths will …
Obligatory webcomic reference.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2526#comic
A wise man just said to me "He like to see himself as a hero, sadly he gets other people killed".
Hero's are suppored to die valiantly for their cause, something sadly he hasn't been able to achieve. More a Kitchiner, I think, people die just to move his drinks cabinet a bit closer to Berlin.
Kitchener was an active general in the Sudan and South Africa (1890s-1902) and was Secretary for War in the First World War.
He identified the need for a massive recruitment of soldiers for a long war, but also had a better idea for a strike at the Ottoman Empire than Churchill's Gallipoli misadventure.
You might be thinking of Haig and others.
FOAF tells me he never called himself 'Mendax' as a hacker, but was instead known as 'The Mad Professor' shortened to 'proff' ( eg: http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-gest.htm ).
'Mendax' was a name he used in the book Underground, because he preferred at the time to use a pseudoname for his pseudoname, rather than just his pseudoname.
FOAF tells me he also used "Prof. Julian Assange" in his e-mail signatures at one point in time, (mis)leading readers to believe he was infact an academic of high standing, as in "Professor Julian Assange", when infact he held no such official academic standing. Thankyou Cryptome records http://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm#1995 (search for text on the page "Prof. Julian Assange").