<story><title>Armed agents seize records of reporter</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/?page=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>Every journalist covering sensitive topics like national security should have well-practiced digital security habits.&lt;p&gt;Edward Snowden specifically sought out Laura Poitras because she had a clue about information security.&lt;p&gt;Peter Maass, who covers national security topics and interviewed Snowden, Poitras and Greenwald [0], explains that very few journalists take appropriate precautions to protect their sources [1].&lt;p&gt;Anything less than routine use of encryption, Tor, VPNs and secure voice communication should be considered journalistic malpractice given what we now know.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?_r=0&amp;amp;pagewanted=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;laura-poitras-sno...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/221003/peter-maass-everyone-needs-to-use-encryption-a-lot-more/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.poynter.org&amp;#x2F;latest-news&amp;#x2F;mediawire&amp;#x2F;221003&amp;#x2F;peter-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Armed agents seize records of reporter</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/?page=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fiatmoney</author><text>The bizarre thing is the actual warrant - searching for firearms-related items &amp;amp; documents in their house, because her husband had a 1980s-vintage resisting arrest conviction which precludes him from owning firearms.  I don&amp;#x27;t have PACER access, but I would love for someone to dig up that warrant application when it becomes available and see how bald-facedly pretextual it is.</text></comment>