[shkkmo]

> What you call torture

It has been called torture by a large number of people, including Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. You can dispute the definition, but it has a strong basis in international law.

> A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves.

Journalists do a wide variety of things, sometimes those things are unethical, that doesn't stop them from being journalists.

[q1w2]

Encouraging military personnel to search for and exfiltrate data goes WAY beyond what a normal journalist does.

Regardless of whether you think it's unethical - it's illegal.