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Hero with a handbag

It emerged this week that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange “disguised himself as an old woman in order to evade US intelligence officers”. It’s important to note, however, that Assange is not the first renegade and computer boffin to dabble in drag.


Computer science fugitives

  • Osama Bit Laden
  • The Apache Web Server Kid
  • The Symbian Platform Liberation Army
  • “Batch” Cassidy and the Sun Microsystems Kid
  • Botnet and Clyde
  • The Dirty DOSen
  • Boolean Assange