>The question about helping someone hack the laptop in question (even if not successful) was a clear crossing of a boundary that I would expect most journalists

>The question about helping someone hack the laptop in question (even if not successful) was a clear crossing of a boundary that I would expect most journalists would not cross. It seems fairly analogous to the famous 1973 burglary of FBI offices that uncovered J Edgar Hoover's blanked surveillance of civil rights movements and his attempt to coerce Luther King into committing suicide: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-break-in-1971-come-forward-documents https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-bre... Retrospectively, it's easy now to call these people heroes who uncovered a rather evil conspiracy.