On 1/29/15, J.M. Porup <jm@porup.com> wrote:

... If we don't wish to be serfs in the new feudal, digital world, we need to re-disrupt the disruption, and invent new tools that ensure human liberty and dignity. ... that time is short, and the New Dark Age is nearly upon us.

as one who is always fond of the question, "what's your threat model?" the implication appears to be two fold: 1. good security journalism, aka "activist journalism", begs forth selective and retributive prosecution through open-ended legislation (CFAA, et. al.) as cover. 2. technical sophistication pursuing these prosecutions is now, thanks to the cyber-industrial-complex, at a point where law enforcement uses techniques recently considered nation state intelligence caliber. thus to pursue "activist security journalism" that is not powers that be sanctioned "mainstream security regurgitation" journalism, your threat model is: securing yourself and your sources against nation state dragnet and targeted attacks, including tailored access and special collection. this is currently considered a "Hard Problem" (TM)(R) even with decades dedicated to the challenge. i do take hope in the fact that most earth humans are not coding to hard problems, but instead to easy, well paying ones. perhaps different incentives will play a bigger role for security?