Lawyers in the Bradley Manning case have produced logs of online chats that claim to show Mr Assange coaching the young private on how to break passwords to gain access to military computer networks anonymously.
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New spying claim against Assange
This is something of a game changer regarding the legality of Assange’s actions. Publishing information—regardless of how it was obtained, is generally protected by the first amendment. Soliciting that information is more dubious—but probably still okay.
But you don’t have a Constitutional right to help somebody hack into military computer networks.
