Reporters Committee releases two-part analysis of indictment of Julian Assange
In an extensive analysis, Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, addresses the U.S. government’s indictment of WikiLeaks Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law criminalizing hacking. In Part I, Rottman writes that the government is hinging the case on password cracking to avoid a freedom of information focus, yet the language of the indictment addresses the publication of classified information. “For instance, writes Rottman,