[Olivia]

Glad to see someone asking this question; I was googling it. :lol

Wikileaks has been hyper-careful to avoid breaking the law, by simply "inviting" people to submit "potentially interesting material" to them in such a way that Wikileaks knows *neither* WHO is sending them the data nor precisely HOW it was obtained, ... ( ie. keeping any "crime" entirely separate from its "own" activites" ) ...

... BUT I am thinking that this NOtW hacking scandal could serve as exactly the sort of "9/11 of media/press" which US and UK govts need ... to introduce new laws requiring all media outlets planning on publishing any material to follow a process of "official authentication" of an informant's real identity, the nature of the source, and HOW the material was obtained ...

Such laws would mean that any "media body/agency" publishing/disseminating material from anonymous sources, ( as Wikileaks does ) and/or info which looks like classified material, ( ie. "stolen"/criminally or illegally obtained data, eg. from phones, personal computers, ... and govt files, etc ... as WL does ), could be prosecuted ...

NOtW is the perfect "excuse"/justification for such laws.

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