ABSTRACT
Six days after he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the US, Donald Trump reached for his mobile phone. He had a habit of tweeting in the early hours of the morning, but this was a more reasonable hour, just gone ten o'clock at night. On a cold Christmas eve Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 25-year-old engineer, changed planes at Amsterdam's Shimpol Airport. He had travelled from Nigeria and was still dressed for warmer weather, but the transit lounge air conditioning shielded him from the near-zero temperature outside as he boarded Norwest Airlines Flight 253 headed for Detroit. Le Monde had appointed a special employee whose job it is to 'evangelise' the issue of journalistic and source security. Developed by the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Digital Human rights, an Italian-based not-for-profit organisation supporting freedom of speech online, GlobaLeaks provides secure source protection for journalists and non-government workers.
