He was not the nerd you’d picture in his basement, glued to his computer. He was a hacker, photographer, activist and security specialist for NGOs. He liked motorcycles, documentaries, traveling, robotics, scuba diving, piloting and writing. He was interested in the world and wanted to change it however he could. Almost thirty years of age, he still has the air of a street kid: anarchist, raised by an addict father, left by a schizophrenic mother and molested by his entire family at a very young age. Appelbaum dropped out of school, taught himself the finer points of code and developed a healthy dose of paranoia along the way. As a programmer and hacker he felt that the world as not a lost place. The Internet was his reason to live. He lived on very little. His San Francisco apartment had very little furniture: a couch, a chair and a table. His travel pictures covered the walls of his office and in a corner there were small sandwich bags full of currency from the countries he had visited.
What do You think about Julian Assange - WikiLeaks (2011)?
