Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

by Jason Porterfield

In 2006, an Australian computer programmer and former hacker named Julian Assange launched a website called WikiLeaks that he claimed would change the way governments worked. Assange envisioned the website as a place where people could post secret and confidential documents that would reveal the abuses by governments and corporations perpetrated against ordinary citizens. In less than five years, Assange took WikiLeaks from an obscure site known only...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448869153
• ISBN13: 9781448869152
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12