Counter nation-state for journalism?

Hello! I have one general and one specific question.

I’m an investigative journalist moving into a sensitive topic set. This topic set places our very small team at a serious and demonstrated risk of highly targeted operations by organizations with a large research and development capacity. For example, in one case, a journalist in our network was confirmed by security auditors as having been compromised by a previously-unknown supply chain vulnerability that introduced a complex remote exploit at the hardware …

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