Politics TOP-SECRET NSA REPORT DETAILS RUSSIAN HACKING EFFORT DAYS BEFORE 2016 ELECTION

bodyman5000 and 1 · Jun 6, 2017

I was thinking more along the lines of putting into.

Denny Crane · Jun 6, 2017

Cippy91 said: ↑

Really?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/...s-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
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The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States.

It is the NYTimes. Their reporting is dubious, as are their sources.

MARIS61 · Jun 6, 2017

lawai'a said: ↑

didn't mean verify source reputation verify the facts presented regardless of source,some or all maybe questionable. just suggesting that to dismiss out of hand because the delivery is questionable, might mean dismissing facts to defend an undefensable position if dismissed facts are in fact valid.
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Here you go, just the facts and 100% verified.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release

barfo · Jun 6, 2017

MARIS61 said: ↑

Here you go, just the facts and 100% verified.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release
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Yes, as long as you interpret 'pizza' to mean 'pedophilia'.

barfo

stampedehero · Jun 7, 2017

SlyPokerDog said: ↑

Did anyone follow this drama yesterday? What a bizarre fucking story.

Here is the quick and easy summary:

1. A stolen top secret NSA report was released yesterday saying that the Russian Military tried to hack the software of voting machines and election officials days before the Nov election. Very interesting article, you should read it.

2. The woman who leaked this was arrested, she's a subcontractor for the NSA. He name, and you can't make this up, is Reality Winner.

3. Now this is where it gets fun. The website who published this story was in contact with Miss Winner and asked for proof on what she was telling them. So she brought up the report on her computer, printed it and sent it to them.

4. The Intercept scanned the report and printed a PDF of it with their article.

5. All newer printers use micro dot codes when they print that disclose in the printed page when it was printed and the serial number of the printer used.

6. The Intercept accidentally publicly outed their own source. Oops!

7. Wikileaks comes out in support of the woman who leaked the document.
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New printers are way too sophisticated.

Cippy91 · Jun 7, 2017

barfo said: ↑

Yes, as long as you interpret 'pizza' to mean 'pedophilia'.

barfo
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you try and derail the publication by mentioning the pizza gate thing. Yeah Wikileaks didn't come up with that, that was conspiracy theorists. Don't know how you could argue against Wikileaks though, they have always been right. I guess if I was wrong I would try and deflect too

Dougnsalem · Jun 7, 2017

SlyPokerDog said: ↑

How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner

Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. 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. The document posted by the Intercept isn't the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later scanned in.

The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document.

In this post, I show how.
the original article here. You can then open it in a PDF viewer, such as the normal "Preview" app on macOS. Zoom into some whitespace on the document, and take a screenshot of this. On macOS, hit [Command-Shift-3] to take a screenshot of a window. There are yellow dots in this image, but you can barely see them, especially if your screen is dirty.

We need to highlight the yellow dots. Open the screenshot in an image editor, such as the "Paintbrush" program built into macOS. Now use the option to "Invert Colors" in the image, to get something like this. You should see a roughly rectangular pattern checkerboard in the whitespace.

It's upside down, so we need to rotate it 180 degrees, or flip-horizontal and flip-vertical:

Now we go to the EFF page and manually click on the pattern so that their tool can decode the meaning:

This produces the following result:

The document leaked by the Intercept was from a printer with model number 54, serial number 29535218. The document was printed on May 9, 2017 at 6:20. The NSA almost certainly has a record of who used the printer at that time.

The situation is similar to how Vice outed the location of John McAfee, by publishing JPEG photographs of him with the EXIF GPS coordinates still hidden in the file. Or it's how PDFs are often redacted by adding a black bar on top of image, leaving the underlying contents still in the file for people to read. Or how opening a Microsoft Office document, then accidentally saving it, leaves fingerprints identifying you behind, as repeatedly happened with the Wikileaks election leaks. These sorts of failures are common with leaks. To fix this yellow-dot problem, use a black-and-white printer, black-and-white scanner, or convert to black-and-white with an image editor.

Printers have two features put in there by the government to be evil to you. The first is that they recognize a barely visible pattern on currency, so that they can't be used to counterfeit money, as shown on this $20 below:

The second is that when they print things out, they includes these invisible dots, so documents can be tracked.

Yes, this code the government forces into our printers is a violation of our 3rd Amendment rights.
http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html#.WTa-VWjyuUl
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This was a great post. I've always heard about this, but never knew the actual details of how it was done....

BTW-do you have a printer that I can borrow for a few???

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