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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 17th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The murder of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi may well have been the last straw

as the US Senate moved to begin the

process of withdrawing assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The Cato

Institute's SpyCon last week I spoke with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the role of journalists in these

fraught times and how risky good journalism can sometimes be.

The ability of governments to surveil and the ability of individuals to encrypt communications

are both greater than ever.

So how has this technology really changed how people do what we could term sensitive journalism?

It's given people particularly those who might be willing to talk to reporters without authorization, a greater

understanding of what their vulnerabilities might be and an understanding of

either some workarounds or some options available to limit their

exposure.

Without talking about any specific measures, it's been really interesting to see how in the years since

mass surveillance, thanks to the Edward Snowden disclosures, became at the fore of discussions about technological advances.

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