I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.

Only for US IPs. If you are from Germany, even with a Google referer you don’t get the article.

I could read the article from Mexico:

https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...

Well, from Germany it seems to not work at all.

I archived it through archive.is using your link (which uses X-Forwarded-For to allow wsj to see my IP), and the page looks like this: https://archive.is/HsIiC

Works from the UK, if you are unlucky go to https://www.4proxy.us/ type in https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&so...

And it will work ;)

You seem to be right (https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.

They are sent as referers to other HTTPS sites. But not to plain text ones.

Yes.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/27/junaid-hussain-...

Apparently it didn't take Obama long to do another 180 on this issue as well:

"I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," he told reporters during a news conference in Senegal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/nsa-leak/index.ht...

It's pretty disingenuous to interpret this statement as the president giving a free pass to all twentysomething hackers.

I agree. Obama's record is quite clear when it comes to drone assassinations as a cheaper alternative to dragging people in for their day in court-- his own constituents included.

Seems like he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambling_(military)