Hackers vs journalists: how can they work together?
A report from the Logan Symposium by ECPMF’s Jane Whyatt with additional reporting by Katharina Mikulcak
Two days of intense debates in the German capital proved that there still exists a sort of imaginary wall between the ethical-hacker communities who protect whistle-blowers and the journalists who publish their stories.
Photo from ECPMF.
With Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake and Lauri Love all taking part in the conference, some of the world’s best known whistle-blowers were onstage. The fact that Assange, Snowden and Love had to be beamed in from exile and enforced detention via videolinks underlines the risks they took…
