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Can Journalists Be Prosecuted for Receiving Classified Information?

A federal judge ruled last week that private citizens could be prosecuted if the government decides they have received or disclosed information harmful to national security. We take a look at the significance of the ruling and its implication for investigative journalists.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/18/1352244

Say You Watch Journalists

I'll tell you why this will end up being bad for the same reasons as the other laws of this type. They are open ended for the government to decide whether they violated the law instead of giving strict guidelines against certain things. When you leave it open ended and up to the government to decided whether they were right or wrong, you inadvertently give the government more power. This is the exact type of ruling that is so open ended it invites abuse. It simply amazes me that our government and judicial system cannot seem to stop making the same mistakes over and over.

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Journalists under attack from hackers

Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organisations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers. Ref. Source 3