Don't talk to police, either, according to this law school professor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
"Federal agents have the right to lie to you-and to put you in prison if you lie to them. Any citizen who makes even a single-word false utterance (”no,” “yes”) to a federal agent faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine." : http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/08/18/the-crime-of-lying-to-t...
They try to make witnesses contradict themselves, so that they can invoke this law and scare them into testifying what they need to hear.
[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
[Fascinating article published originally in WSJ] http://ourtaxdollarsatwork.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/federal-...
[How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents] http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoi...
I felt sick reading her account and couldn't finish. She is not the person I would want by my side going through something like that. In spite of being a "reporter on hackers" she was extremely naive of the system. How can anyone in the right mind recommend that the prosecution reads a document called the "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto"?