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I can actually imagine a tool that’d copy/paste the metadata along with the data, but I don’t know if any exist.
by e28eta 4y ago
I can actually imagine a tool that’d copy/paste the metadata along with the data, but I don’t know if any exist.
- chihuahua 4y agoUsing a screenshot tool should be safe. It will treat all pixels on the screen the same, so it doesn't know that some pixels have metadata beyond what's visible on the screen.
- hef19898 4y agoThen print and scan the screen shot before faxing it to authorities.
- toss1 4y agoAnd make sure that the scan is of low enough resolution that it fails to pickup the printer identification dot pattern in the printout... The fax should help with that, except that it'll reveal the location of your source fax. Using fax software/service needs its own security... maybe snail-mail... This is getting seriously nontrivial
- adolph 4y agoDon’t forget to pilfer newspapers from around the country and cut/glue letters from different fonts to compose the message and use homemade paper as the base layer.
- hef19898 4y agoInstead of home made, use the most prolific paper you can imagine!
- hef19898 4y agoWell, if we talk about goverbment whistleblower programs I assume using a fax from a random location while travelling would be good enough to not be identified by your employer (or whom ever you blow whistle on). If you do blow the whistel on the government, well, you better trust your journalist partner a lot. Or use a trustworthy lawyer as a go between. But hey, one could send the fax back and forth, cut of the fax numbers and physically mail it from a very busy train station! And have a someone put the letter into the letterbox for you, someone you pay out of view of any CCTV cameras!
- gregoryl 4y agoPeople who have information x, and were in location y (especially where y is not a common place for x holding people) will be a very limited set.
- Kon-Peki 4y ago> Using a screenshot tool should be safe. It will treat all pixels on the screen the same Nope. Microsoft Office has an option/plugin that lets you flag emails and documents as restricted. You can, for example, send such an email to someone else. That person can open the email and use a screenshot tool on that email. What they will get is a flat gray box where the email content was. Not all pixels on the screen are the same. And you have no idea if your computer tattled on you and let the sending org know that you tried to screenshot the email.
- thrashh 4y agoWhen they mean safe, they mean it doesn’t expose any extra data to a new person This thread has nothing to do with preventing your source from finding out
- Kon-Peki 4y agoMy anecdote demonstrates that the operating system is clearly not treating all pixels the same, which is exactly what I wrote. And the screenshot tool participates in this. This MS Office trick is a quick and easy way to show someone that you can’t trust Windows when it comes to screenshots. Ignore it at your own risk.
- deadbunny 4y agoI mean other email clients exist...
- greggyb 4y agoIf you use Outlook to restrict an email and send that to me at a non-Microsoft-affiliated account (that I access from a non Microsoft OS), I have to imagine the restriction is worthless.
- Sylamore 4y agoMy child's school uses this feature when they email parents, you have to open the email up in a web browser and the web browser has to be allowed/supported by outlook web access to render. I haven't tried to screenshot it, but it's annoying as hell getting one of those emails on my iPhone.