#  Harvard Anthropology Professor Gabriella Coleman Cited in NY Times Article on Julian Assange Case 

 





July 02, 2024

 

 

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 The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share a recent article published in the *NY Times*, "The Digital World Is a Powder Keg. Julian Assange Lit the Fuse." which includes comments by Professor [Gabriella Coleman](/people/gabriella-coleman).

> Looking back, it’s easy to see Mr. Assange as the father of the digital revolution in leaking. At the time, he was something closer to a talented promoter, one who managed to position himself at the center of several currents that started to converge around the turn of the millennium.
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>  “In the late 1990s and early 2000s, people were hacking into systems and they were taking documents, but those hackers were not ideologically inclined to hack and leak,” said Gabriella Coleman, a professor of anthropology at Harvard whose new book, “Weapons of the Geek,” will include two chapters on the history of hacking and leaking.
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>  Still, Ms. Coleman said, the history of leaking is still being written, in part by organizations like [Distributed Denial of Secrets](https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets) and [XnetLeaks](https://xnet-x.net/en/xnetleaks/). Like WikiLeaks, these sites solicit and post high-volume digital leaks. But they have higher standards when it comes to redacting information and vetting sources.
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>  As for Mr. Assange, he was “engaging in a very bold experiment,” Ms. Coleman said. “Experiments are bound to have successes and failures. But you needed someone to be bold and go for it.”

 The full article can be found [here](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/world/australia/julian-assange-hacking-leaks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb).



 

 

 



 

 

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