Around the same time, Bini started to rethink his
online habits and at one point gave up his Gmail
account in favor of self-hosted email.
Ecuadorian authorities have asked the U.S.
government for assistance from code experts in
analyzing more than 30 electronic storage devices
that Bini was carrying when he was arrested.
Assange, who has been detained in Britain
since being kicked out of Ecuador’s embassy,
is fighting an extradition request from the U.S.
He faces an 18-count indictment in the Eastern
District of Virginia that accuses him of soliciting
and publishing classified information and
with conspiring with former Army intelligence
analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a Defense
Department computer password.