"I obtained Nakamoto's email through a company he buys model trains from." In Europe, this would be completely illegal. I'd suspect that in the US this at leas

"I obtained Nakamoto's email through a company he buys model trains from." In Europe, this would be completely illegal. I'd suspect that in the US this at least breaks the privacy policy of whatever site Nakamoto was using. "Two weeks before our meeting in Temple City, I struck up an email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, mostly discussing his interest in upgrading and modifying model steam trains with computer-aided design technologies. " I understand that this is sometimes how journalism is "done" but the sneakiness of it all seems pretty low.