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The dots were used afterwards to see what happened to the document. By showing that the document she had printed was given to the press, they are able to take h
by er4hn 5y ago
The dots were used afterwards to see what happened to the document. By showing that the document she had printed was given to the press, they are able to take her in. Otherwise if multiple people had printed the same document in the past several weeks, you need to investigate each of them.
- djrogers 5y agoThere’s no indication that happened either. The court docs say an investigator went to her house and questioned her, and she admitted to printing the doc and sending it to the press. That’s how 99% of police work is done in the real world.
- spoonjim 5y agoOf course, but the NSA doesn’t need Microdots to track their own leaks even if the suspect doesn’t confess. They need Microdots to track YOUR printing which is why it is an affront to privacy.
- spoonjim 5y agoAt somewhere like NSA the print server can introduce small variations into the printing like margins and whitespace that can be used to make each print unique. The Intercept knows all of this, which is why I suspect that for whatever reasons they had, they intentionally threw her to the wolves. The Intercept is not run by dummies.