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Cuffed: Govt contractor 'used work PC to leak' evidence of Russia's US election hacking

BillG
IT Angle

Re: Dear "The Intercept"

@Rustbucket wrote: And microdots can survive a trip through an office copier, or was some other identification method used?

I've heard there are subtle ways these printed classified documents are modified and so can be identified, such as minuscule modifications to the spacing between words and lines, and the serifs in serif fonts. Copying still reproduces these subtle changes and so identifies who printed it. Retyping a multi-page document can be impractical.

It's also not hard to log what user printed what pages from which document. And I suspect that cell phones and cameras are banned from these highly classified workplaces.

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