[liberationtech] Federal interception of CIA emails to journalists, and journalists emails to legal team

[John Young]

Journalists lack of comsec has always been the weakest link of
unauthorized disclosures.

Worse is the more pervasive comsec lack by the lazy
overly privileged and coddled publishing industry: publishers, attorneys,
permanent and temporary staff, janitors, visitorsm, messengers, wives
and husbands, children and friends asked to guide parents with
computers, housekeepers, ISPs, cellphone providers and those
pesky pests, insiders and black-baggers working the industry since
it was created and sustained to be all too trustworthy by spies and
sources.

The miscreants deserve Scarlet Letters, since they seldom risk
punishment, not for publishing courage but for comsec negligence
and a persistent flood of leaks for which they put others at
risk with callous indifference bred by arrogance and constitutional
protection.

Assange made four comsec mistakes: trusting new staff and
fair weather friends, believing best friends in the press would
protect him, believing confidential lawyers, then believing
national leaders -- all of them major leakers, social engineers
and targets of spies. What Lamo social engineered out of Manning
is kid stuff by comparison for the industries that thrive and
get rich on siphoning and leaking information.

Never communicate with a member of the media, legal and
political gangs who will sacrifice you and avidly exploit your
cowering in a bolt hole or molderng at Leavenworth and
eagerly expect lengthy trials for more gush and actionable
intelligence on supporters, protestors, bloggers, journos,
and us blathering here and where else but Tor, the biggest
honey trap since religion.



At 04:09 AM 10/24/2012, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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>From: frank at journalistsecurity.net
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:38:16 -0700
>To: liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
>Subject: [liberationtech] Federal interception of CIA emails to journalists,
>         and journalists emails to legal team
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>This case seems to be of value to the list. Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou
>on Tuesday pleaded guilty to disclosing the name of a CIA figure to
>former ABC News journalist Matthew Cole. The indictment against
>Kiraiakou released in April indicated that Federal authorities had
>obtained emails between Kiriakou and three journalists including Cole
>and another ABC News journalist along with Scott Shane of The New York
>Times. The indictment also indicates that authorities intercepted a
>subsequent email by Cole (with information from Kiriakou) to a defense
>investigator with attorneys for terror suspects being held in
>Guantanamo.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-in-leak-case.html?_r=0
>http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/04/more-journalists-linked-to-case-charging-excia-officer-120047.html
>
>No case better underscores the need for U.S. journalists covering
>national security to start practicing digital security. More information
>may or may not become available. I'd welcome any thoughts here. Thank
>you. Frank
>
>
>Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist
>Securityfrank at journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202
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