Blowing up the silence with a keyboard: the case of Julian Assange

Julian Assange, the editor in chief of Wikileaks, caused shock and awe to the government headquarters worldwide, revealing a seemingly endless series of classified documents and records of American government agencies. Moreover, his name features on Interpol’s list of wanted criminals next to the names of serial killers, terrorists and kidnappers: Assange was wanted as a suspect of rape and recently arrested, but the British courts decided his under conditions release on bail two hundred thousand pounds (200.000 ￡) until his extradition or not to Sweden.