The US collects data from many sources to identify and prosecute
whistleblowers. After publication, this includes information from
many databases
about which
employees contacted a journalist.
The article suggests how messaging software might help protect
whistleblowers; but this won't keep them safe for very long after the
leak is published.
Above all, the article explains why the US must eliminate the practice
of prosecuting whistleblowers for "spying" is fundamentally wrong
anyway.
Meanwhile, real spy chiefs want to make things worse
by banning
secure encryption, and thus put our freedom in more danger —
from them.