Cybersecurity
Assange May Be Ready to Take First Steps Into a Different World
- Australian has spent six years in London’s Ecuadorian embassy
- Diplomatic efforts to get him out have sped up in recent weeks
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Julian Assange soon will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London -- his refuge from criminal charges for the last six years -- and enter a changed world.
The Australian walked into the building in the capital’s Knightsbridge neighborhood just before the 2012 Olympics, with Barack Obama in his first term and elections untainted by alleged interference by Russian agents. When he walks out, Assange will face a new more aggressive American president, a U.K. trying to find its role outside the European Union and a change in Ecuadorian leadership. The 47-year-old may find the future uncertain.