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Another line of reasoning in this vein is that one group of politicians is eager to find and prosecute the leaker, the other is not. If they thought it was som
by Natsu 5y ago
Another line of reasoning in this vein is that one group of politicians is eager to find and prosecute the leaker, the other is not. If they thought it was someone from the other side, they'd probably want a scalp.
Also, the conclusion of the article is that there's basically no metadata in this PDF. This article doesn't mention that it was created something like 7 minutes before the Politico story ran. It's going to be pretty hard to work that fact into any scenario where Politico didn't scan a paper document themselves or have someone assist them in doing so as I don't think they wrote the article in 7 minutes.
- davrosthedalek 4y agoOr, you know, set the clock wrongly on purpose. Or just have an incorrectly set clock. Maybe a timezone thing. Maybe a VM.
- Natsu 4y agoMost computers are set up to use NTP automatically and it'd take a heck of a coincidence to get the time 7 minutes before the article was published. If they wanted to fake the time they'd pick something like midnight Jan 1 that gives no info. More likely is that they were waiting for someone to help them scrub the info from it and they hit the publish button on an already prepared article right after they got the file.