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New York Times Doxxes Source By Publishing Passport Number
Author : jbegley
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-12-20 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (theintercept.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (theintercept.com)
| teachrdan wrote:
| A bit ironic for the Intercept to write an article about this,
| considering they did the same thing to Reality Winner.
|
| https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/real...
|
| To be fair I think she would have been caught regardless. But the
| Intercept made investigators' jobs way easier.
| Baldbvrhunter wrote:
| "It takes a thief to catch a thief"
|
| Clarke, J. (1665) "Proverbs English and Latine"
|
| https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16609781
| rnk wrote:
| There's a trend of these things happening. Reporters constantly
| miss what tracking tech does.
|
| Reality Winner's situation, where they gave the actual printout
| she gave them to the feds and it had secret codes embedded in
| it to identify when/where printed (a long standing thing in
| printers, in case you didn't know) completely violated her
| trust with the reporters.
|
| There was also the situation where the NYT reporter got docs
| from a leaker about Les Moonves' sexual harassement case. The
| reporter put in stupid info that outed the lawyer, that was on
| the line of "the docs has 57 pages" and a couple of other very
| specific things.
|
| There needs to be some kind of education system for reporters
| that helps them stop outing sources. We are of course served by
| extreme misdeeds being exposed in the press, whether it gores
| your own ox or someone else's. But reporters have to stop doing
| this. Don't publish and actual photo, please re-encode it,
| remove metadata, do it twice, try to test it yourselves to find
| something. Don't put numbers. Don't use exact phrasing. When
| big companies like microsoft try to find leakers, they have
| software that slightly changes the phrasing in their big
| company missives, I was told this by a microsoft exec once.
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| The Reality Winner one was especially fucked because IIRC
| they actually had a trained professional with experience in
| high stakes leaks on staff, they just didn't use them for her
| for some reason.
| Cenk wrote:
| > The Times story feature art -- at the top of the article -- is
| a mosaic composed of various images apparently supplied by Lu,
| including interior and exterior shots of the work camp. The
| mosaic is composed of 10 images. In the original article, the
| images' URLs had irregular numbering, jumping from four to 20.
| Though only 10 of those 20 images were utilized in the opening
| mosaic by the Times, it was possible to view any of the 20 images
| by changing the image number in the file name listed in the
| image's URL.
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