Julian Assange suddenly not a fan of unauthorized publication

Independent British publisher Canongate Books released “Julian Assange: the Unauthorized Autobiography,” Thursday, against Mr. Assange’s wishes. The book chronicles Assange’s life from his Australian childhood to his time as a teenage computer hacker to the founding of his controversial website and subsequent legal troubles.

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Assange, who made many enemies in media organizations and governments around the world after leaking classified documents in WikiLeaks, is doubtless angered by the move to publish against his consent, the Financial Times wryly reported.

“The irony that the operator of the world’s largest whistleblowing site, responsible for releasing hundreds of thousands of secret documents, will himself find his private comments aired in public is likely to raise a smile among diplomats and politicians around the world,” it said in a piece titled “Tables turned on WikiLeaks founder.”