The recent FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home marks a drastic escalation in the government’s ongoing attack on the press and their sources, going beyond secretive subpoenas served to service providers for phone and email logs to outright seizures of journalists’ personal and work devices.
Fortunately, while there are no perfect safeguards, there are a number of concrete measures reporters can take to minimize the amount of source-compromising information a raid and accompanying device seizure can produce.
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