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    Natanson said her work had led to 1,169 new sources, “all current or former federal employees who decided to trust me with their stories”

    They will target and prosecute every single person that spoke to this reporter.

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      The journalist should’ve had it all encrypted.

      Future journalists need to have solid encryption protocols, open source stuff we can vet, so leakers know they can trust talking to them, and can know how they are vulnerable and how not.

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        Assuming there aren’t any backdoors in whatever encryption she did use, I’m gonna assume the journalist was taking measures to protect her informants. Here’s hoping the pants-shitting incompetence of the MAGAt administration prevents them from identifying the whistleblowers.