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I'm surprised that so many people are surprised that this was a thing. Ever since I learned that tracking information is present but hidden in an Eve Online all

• 15155 8y ago
  Former EVE player (Nulli Secunda) and long-time software engineer. I saw this way back when and now assume any kind of NDA'd or questionable text has uniquely-identifiable unicode replacement character sequences and invisible watermarks. It's just too easy to do.
  • Moru 8y ago
    Old lexicons had misspelled words put in to catch the copycats. Since they don't have to prove who did the copying it's easy, they just have to prove that the copy is from them. We do something similar to our stuff. No need to prove who did the copying as they publish the stuff on their app/homepage and have exactly the same spelling mistakes as our homepage displays to the ip-numbers we know they are using for harvesting. Document all and send to the lawyers.
• AgentME 8y ago
  Since people were able to figure that out, then people could use that knowledge to create fake watermarks that decode to other people. If someone in the alliance wanted to frame another person in the alliance as a leaker, then they could do it easily with this knowledge. People that make systems like this should make sure the hidden value is signed or encrypted in a way using a hidden key so that people can't make fake watermarks for other users.