> You’re positing that we should basically have vigilante hackers that expropriate and publish confidential data so long as they purport to be acting in the pub

> You’re positing that we should basically have vigilante hackers that expropriate and publish confidential data so long as they purport to be acting in the public interest. That's not what they said at all. That's just a straw-man you created. What they said is that Juries are the law, they're part of the English tradition because a Jury is the law.