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A more foolproof way to track this would be to slightly change the wording of important sections in each copy handed out. This would allow them to track down e
by downandout 5y ago
A more foolproof way to track this would be to slightly change the wording of important sections in each copy handed out. This would allow them to track down even copies of confidential documents that were simply transcribed or where the press used excerpts.
- pjerem 5y agoThose documents may probably have legal value, and could be legitimately handled by dozens or hundreds of people. And we are talking about millions of pages. That could only work with an intentional trap when you know someone leaks but not who.
- Aachen 5y agoWith five variations of ten sentences ("We now have", "Now we have", "Right now we have", etc., you can probably come up with this many in under five minutes), one combination randomly assigned to a user accessing the document, you get 5^10=9.8M variations. That should narrow it down. Not that I necessarily think doing this is a good thing, for the record.