&gt; he seems to have learned his lesson<p>This is the big problem with Keys though: he apparently hasn&#x27;t. He&#x27;s issuing statements defending himself with the massively hypocritical stance that he&#x27;s &quot;protecting his sources&quot; when, as you point out, he actually gave potential  access to all the correspondence with all his newspaper&#x27;s sources to a group which enjoys distributing similar material across the internet, especially if they can find something embarrassing. He&#x27;s not only protesting his innocence (which he has a right to do, even if it&#x27;s not a credible protest) but also insisting that such actions shouldn&#x27;t be prosecuted in the first place. I don&#x27;t think that it can be said that a person arguing that as a journalist they had a fundamental right to invite third parties to damage their former employer&#x27;s property and potentially embarrass uninvolved third parties (out of spite rather than activism) can be said to have learned their lesson just because they&#x27;ve apparently performed competently at their day jobs since then.