Maybe? Meaning they haven't proven to you that they weren't complicit? That's not how evidence works.
Larry Seltzer Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [email protected] http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ -----Original Message----- From: Paul M Moriarty [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:21 PM To: Larry Seltzer Cc: Gadi Evron; funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-Mails In the case of The Pentagon Papers, the NYT did nothing illegal related to the acquisition of the Stuff that was published. Is eastanglaimails.com complicit? Maybe. Are all the other media outlets that picked it up once eastangliamails.com published it complicit? No. - Paul - On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote: > Is there some evidence that eastangliaemails.com was involved with the > hack? If not, I don't see the relevance, and I certainly don't see why > the New York Times of all places, the defendant in the Pentagon Papers > case, should feel they can't publish them > > Larry Seltzer > Contributing Editor, PC Magazine > [email protected] > http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul M Moriarty [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:41 PM > To: Larry Seltzer > Cc: Gadi Evron; funsec > Subject: Re: [funsec] The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-Mails > > The difference, as the BBC article points out, is whether the journalist > either encouraged or participated in the illegal act. Not so for the > Pentagon Papers, seemingly so for the Lookout Services incident. > > - Paul - > > On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Larry Seltzer wrote: > >>> From the point of view of the newspaper this is *exactly* like the >> Pentagon Papers case. Those papers were illegally leaked, but the >> Supreme Court held that the government could not enjoin newspapers > from >> publishing them. >> >> Larry Seltzer >> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine >> [email protected] >> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
