DoJ subpoena guidelines for journalists | Confidential source agreements

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Mon Mar 12 18:08:05 PST 2001


At 11:01 AM 3/12/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>I believe that as a matter of principle, there is no difference between
>what I do in my articles and what John Young does on cryptome.org. Both
>of us *should* be treated by the law as professional journalists.
>
>However, I also recognize that the law will likely not see things that
>way, at least not yet.
>

That's not really the problem ---his site, by now, is well known,
so he can appeal to numbers.  The question is what about the rest 
of us ---who may put up a single-issue site with far fewer visitors? 

Where, and why, do you set the threshold? 





More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list