Anonymous hacker \'Nerdo\' jailed for 18 months over attacks in support of Wikileaks - Telegraph.
Across the world, authorities are wildly overreacting to the threat posed by online activism. History says it won’t work. Expect more Aaron Swartzs, Bradley Mannings and Kim Dotcomes in coming years.
via Swartz, Assange, Manning, Dotcom: overreaction to online activism | Crikey.
Innocent-seeming information they get from you could give them the opportunity to convict you or your friends, and Assange, even if you had nothing to do with the leak and neither did they.