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Police photo date stamp yellow4/1/2024 Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named “Reality Winner” was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later reporting revealed that visually imperceptible yellow dots added to the document when it was printed may have provided investigators with all the information they needed to locate the person responsible for its leaking: the date and time it was printed, and the serial number of the exact printer on which it was printed.Ī widely-shared post on a blog called Errata Security demonstrated this process using the actual file published by The Intercept: ![]() That material - National Security Agency documents describing the extent and nature of Russian hacking into the United States’ 2016 presidential election - was published by The Intercept about an hour before Winner was arrested. ![]() ![]() On 5 June 2017, a federal contractor named Reality Winner was charged with “removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet”.
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