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If Martin had released these files somehow, wouldn't there likely have been stenographic measures in place to trace the source of the leak? Or like, ANY corrobo
by pizza 7y ago
If Martin had released these files somehow, wouldn't there likely have been stenographic measures in place to trace the source of the leak? Or like, ANY corroborating accounting for the transfer of ~50 TB of data? I guess the important lesson of the story is that NSA contractors can lose track of terabytes of data being exfiltrated over the course of decades. /Decades/.
Who knows, maybe there are 10 more Martins out there who are just better at covering up their tracks. Then again, maybe not. Maybe anything.
I guess there's always the "you can't stop someone from taking a photo of your computer monitor" problem (forgetting the name rn), but even then you can use little things like spacing words slightly differently per presentation of the file, etc.
- implying 7y agoThere are definitely steganographic measures in place. Reality Winner is currently imprisoned because The Intercept didn't properly remove yellow tracking dots from a printed memo she leaked to them. Printed documents are easily tracked this way, and I suspect minor variations and invisible unicode, etc. is used for more widely desseminated digital material. There is almost definitely 10 more martins out there... exfiltration is so diverse of a problem that any system with strict auditing and controls will still have side-channel attacks. >I guess there's always the "you can't stop someone from taking a photo of your computer monitor" problem (forgetting the name rn), but even then you can use little things like spacing words slightly differently per presentation of the file, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole