One leaker identified and arrested

Billy the real Kid

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DvlDog4WVU

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Can we have a serious conversation about this chick's name?

Seriously? "Reality Winner"? WTF were her parents thinking?
 

TarHeelEer

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I don't think so. They nailed her for a document she sent in May, and was turned in in May by the publication she sent it to. Had it been hurtful to Trump, it would've been published.

And I'm wrong. She's anti-Trump liberal.
 

WVU82_rivals

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stealing TS docs less than three months into your job...

lol...

means she didn't care from day one...

bet she stole a **** load of reports...
 

WVPATX

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stealing TS docs less than three months into your job...

lol...

means she stole a **** load of reports...

I hope she gets a heck of a lot of prison time or turns on those that have been supporting her.
 

WVU82_rivals

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be interesting to find out if she had a 'handler'...

ex-USAF, there for her foreign language skills...

a linguist... who speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari...

would like to know why she had access to those docs...
 
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WVU82_rivals

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How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner

Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted by the Intercept isn't the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later scanned in.

The problem is that all new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document.

In this post, I show how.

You can download the document from the original article here. You can then open it in a PDF viewer, such as the normal "Preview" app on macOS. Zoom into some whitespace on the document, and take a screenshot of this. On macOS, hit [Command-Shift-3] to take a screenshot of a window. There are yellow dots in this image, but you can barely see them, especially if your screen is dirty.


We need to highlight the yellow dots. Open the screenshot in an image editor, such as the "Paintbrush" program built into macOS. Now use the option to "Invert Colors" in the image, to get something like this. You should see a roughly rectangular pattern checkerboard in the whitespace.


It's upside down, so we need to rotate it 180 degrees, or flip-horizontal and flip-vertical:


Now we go to the EFF page and manually click on the pattern so that their tool can decode the meaning:


This produces the following result:

The document leaked by the Intercept was from a printer with model number 54, serial number 29535218. The document was printed on May 9, 2017 at 6:20. The NSA almost certainly has a record of who used the printer at that time.

The situation is similar to how Vice outed the location of John McAfee, by publishing JPEG photographs of him with the EXIF GPS coordinates still hidden in the file. Or it's how PDFs are often redacted by adding a black bar on top of image, leaving the underlying contents still in the file for people to read, such as in this NYTime accident with a Snowden document. These sorts of failures are common with leaks. To fix this yellow-dot problem, use a black-and-white printer, black-and-white scanner, or convert to black-and-white with an image editor.

Printers have two features put in there by the government to be evil to you. The first is that they recognize a barely visible pattern on currency, so that they can't be used to counterfeit money, as shown on this $20 below:



The second is that when they print things out, they includes these invisible dots, so documents can be tracked.

Yes, this code the government forces into our printers is a violation of our 3rd Amendment rights.
 

WVUCOOPER

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The poor slut just thought she was too smart.
And how about that "reporter"? Sheesh. It's almost like they wanted her to get caught. lol. F the Intercept. Thankfully this should shut them down for good and Greenwald can just go work directly for RT.
 

bornaneer

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Sara Winners @Reezlie


@kanyewest you should make a shirt that says, "being white is terrorism"

10:48 PM - 25 Feb 2017
 

bornaneer

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Another product of the Deliverance Clan....This piece of sh*t was handling Top Secret info.
 

dave

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And how about that "reporter"? Sheesh. It's almost like they wanted her to get caught. lol. F the Intercept. Thankfully this should shut them down for good and Greenwald can just go work directly for RT.
Poor slut thought she was soooooo smart. Let her rot in prison.
 

WVUCOOPER

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And by vetting, you mean talk a walk down the runway nude? Or give a demo on pole dancing? [winking]
Only if I'm doing that vetting. Hopefully the vetting will be on can we trust this person to handle our secrets or are they Eddy Snowden/Reality Game Winner