“Barrett’s crime is hard to discern,” says Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group which campaigns for digital rights. “He didn’t hack or leak anything – he posted a link to documents that had already been hacked and leaked. And the Supreme Court has established there’s a first amendment protection to disclosing information that you obtained legally, even if the person you obtained it from obtained it illegally.”
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:12:17 +0000
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