{"id":14938,"date":"2010-12-06T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14938"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:49:41","slug":"nathaniel-rich-meet-the-most-dangerous-man-in-cyberspace-the-american-face-of-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14938","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Rich: Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Face of Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American hacker Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world. Now he&#8217;s on the run from his own government<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Nathaniel Rich<br \/>\n1 December 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 29th,  returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming  27-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan &#8220;Be the trouble you  want to see in the world,&#8221; was detained at customs by a posse of federal  agents. In an interrogation room at Newark Liberty airport, he was  grilled about his role in Wikileaks, the whistle-blower group that has  exposed the government&#8217;s most closely guarded intelligence reports about  the war in Afghanistan. The agents photocopied his receipts, seized  three of his cellphones \u2014 he owns more than a dozen \u2014 and confiscated  his computer. They informed him that he was under government  surveillance. They questioned him about the trove of 91,000 classified  military documents that Wikileaks had released the week before, a leak  that Vietnam-era activist Daniel Ellsberg called &#8220;the largest  unauthorized disclosure since the Pentagon Papers.&#8221; They demanded to  know where Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was hiding. They  pressed him on his opinions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Appelbaum refused to answer. Finally, after three hours, he was  released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/news\/17389\/238944\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American hacker Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world. Now he&#8217;s on the run from his own government By\u00a0Nathaniel Rich 1 December 2010 On July 29th, returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming 27-year-old wearing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3SW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14941,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}