An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

In an exclusive sit-down with WikiLeaks' founder, he tells Forbes about a coming wave of involuntary transparency for government--and business.

Interviewing Julian Assange, London, Nov. 11, 2010.

Admire him or revile him, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world’s secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago. Over the last year his information insurgency has dumped 76,000 secret Afghan war documents and another trove of 392,000 files from the Iraq war into the public domain–the largest classified military security breaches in history. Sunday, WikiLeaks made the first of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department cables public, offering an unprecedented view of how America’s top diplomats view enemies and friends alike.
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