When asked what would happen if he was “taken out,” either physically or technically, WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an online chat that over 100,000 people have encrypted copies of leaked material and “If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically.” Assange also maintained that not “a single person has come to harm as a result of our activities,” and that he wished to go home, but can not because his government was working to hand him over to the Americans “merely so that Australian politicians and diplomats can be invited to the best US embassy cocktail parties.”