The Rise and Fall of the Reality Winner

In a past episode of smashing security we spoke about the arrest of reality winner. She printed out sensitive information at her workplace and gave those printouts to reporters who published them on their site rather than retype in the information. printers leave this little matrix of nearly invisible yellow dots on your documents so you can identify which printer printed out a particular document. This is useful information by the way if you're planning to write a ransom note or something like that. But it's very interesting. I think not many people realize that printers do that.

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