Many journalists have been convicted on such charges as "disseminating false information endangering state security," "supporting or condoning terrorism" or "disturbing public order".
One click can install a keystroke logger that turns any electronic device into a transmitter of login information (endangering every account, especially finances), rope devices into botnets that distribute spam or launch distributed denial of service attacks on major websites.
China's list of prohibited content online includes any information that: endangers state security, damages state honor and interests, spreads rumors, and disrupts social order and stability.
They say that disclosure of some information could endanger them or subject them to identity theft.
They also confiscated computer hardware, which in some cases contained information that endangered Cubans who are thought to have had no idea they were caught up in the clandestine programme.
WikiLeaks made no effort to contact the US government about these documents, which may contain information that endanger the lives of Americans, our partners, and local populations who co-operate with us".
Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, based in Piscataway, N.J., said yesterday that it would help the Zoological Society of San Diego create a library of genetic information from endangered animals, enabling zoologists to study 146 mammal families.
So in a series of phone calls and meetings, he and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. fashioned a more aggressive strategy to punish anyone who leaked national security information that endangered intelligence-gathering methods and sources.
Today Google announces that it will put its name and resources into the oft-starved effort: Today we're introducing something we hope will help: the Endangered Languages Project, a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages.
At prime minister's questions David Cameron criticised the Guardian and urged select committees to hold inquiries, following a question from the former defence secretary Liam Fox asking whether it was double standards to prosecute newspapers that hacked the phones of celebrities, but not those papers that released information that endangered national security.
