Peter Ludlow, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, discusses his article on the jailing of journalist and unofficial “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown; Brown’s “Project PM” journalistic operation of crowd-sourcing the contents of millions of emails taken from tech security/intel companies HB Gary and Stratfor; why nearly every American has committed a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; and the credulous judges who have no clue about computers or technology issues.

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