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The general idea is called a Canary Trap, and IIRC it was popularized by Tom Clancy. The most common form is to have some subtle variations in the content or wo
by QAPereo 9y ago
The general idea is called a Canary Trap, and IIRC it was popularized by Tom Clancy. The most common form is to have some subtle variations in the content or wording, which would give away the origin.
Edit here we go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
The Canary Trap, aka The Barium Meal.
- tclancy 9y agoThanks for the credit, but I work exclusively in longhand. [note the extra space please]
- kbenson 9y agoI spent far too long looking at your comment history trying to figure out if you really were the author (since others have shown up here) until I stumbled on something semi-verifiable and visited Wikipedia (which should have been my first stop), only to learn the author Tom Clancy passed away a few years ago. :)
- tclancy 9y agoYou would be shocked to learn how many Twitter users don't bother doing either before writing to me.
- lojack 9y agoOne of the alliances in Eve online used to do this type of counter intelligence to assist in identifying spies releasing internal communications. They’d also introduce invisible watermarks in any images they posted. My understanding was their leadership had a tool to help them select a few synonyms in anything they wrote, and a few synonyms was all it took to identify the account releasing the communication.
- abstractbeliefs 9y agoMore than one. PL, Goons, Test, various Russian alliances, and some smaller players all would. I really loved EvEs (counter)intelligence scene, it felt like a great place to safely dabble in real tools and techniques like this.