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The CIA created a "Snowden Stopper" to catch future whistleblowers

Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:24 pm
Posted by goldennugget
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Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:24 pm
"The CIA is benevolent and just in what they do" -Navytiger74 and DisplacedBuckeye

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The latest Wikileaks release of leaked CIA cyberweapons includes "Scribbles" -- referred to by the CIA as the "Snowden Stopper" -- a watermarking tool that embeds web-beacon style tracking beacons into secret documents that quietly notify a central server every time the document is opened.

The beacons are references to image files hosted on a server the CIA controls. Rendering this image requires that the user's computer contact the CIA server to fetch a copy, giving the CIA insight into who is opening the document and when and where it is opened.
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:25 pm to
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"The CIA is benevolent and just in what they do" -Navytiger74 and DisplacedBuckeye


You're weird, bro.
Posted by CptRusty
Basket of Deplorables
Member since Aug 2011
11740 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:27 pm to
So what if I take a screenshot of the documents....i mean this seems a bit trivial to defeat
Posted by OnTheGeaux
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Member since Oct 2009
3067 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:30 pm to
Not weird... vigilant and open-minded. I for one, appreciate threads from all corners of the spectrum. GN and Jjdoc topics are auto-read.
Posted by Navytiger74
Member since Oct 2009
50458 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:35 pm to
Yeah corporations do that, too. Hell some porn sites do. Heaven forbid we try to protect classified the way we do intellectual property. It's not hard a hard measure to defeat FWIW.
Posted by Iosh
Bureau of Interstellar Immigration
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:44 pm to
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The latest Wikileaks release of leaked CIA cyberweapons includes "Scribbles" -- referred to by the CIA as the "Snowden Stopper" -- a watermarking tool that embeds web-beacon style tracking beacons into secret documents that quietly notify a central server every time the document is opened.

The beacons are references to image files hosted on a server the CIA controls. Rendering this image requires that the user's computer contact the CIA server to fetch a copy, giving the CIA insight into who is opening the document and when and where it is opened.
I for one always stay connected to the Internet when opening files leaked from an intelligence agency. It's just common sense!
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:46 pm to
Why wouldn't they attempt to prevent leaking, and if leaked, catch the parties involved?

I don't think the CIA are angels and I'm not justifying everything they do, but this seems logical. Why wouldn't any national intelligence agency protect and track sensitive information?

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"The CIA is benevolent and just in what they do" -Navytiger74 and DisplacedBuckeye

What this article describes isn't "evil and unjust," anything less would be negligence on their part IMO.
This post was edited on 4/30/17 at 2:56 pm
Posted by cwill
Member since Jan 2005
54753 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 2:47 pm to
This "revelation" isn't crazy enough for you...please get back to jews and pipelines and false flags, oh my.
Posted by NC_Tigah
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Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:00 pm to
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the "Snowden Stopper"
If the nitwits had developed a "Bradley Manning Stopper", Snowden would have been a nonissue. For Snowden to have occurred on the scale it did, after Manning unroofed chasms in US document security, was indicative of carelessness nearly beyond comprehension.
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
71925 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:07 pm to
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vigilant


Agreed.

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open-minded


That's an interesting description of it.

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I for one, appreciate threads from all corners of the spectrum. GN and Jjdoc topics are auto-read.


Oh, I absolutely agree, but likely for other reasons.
Posted by Foy
Member since Nov 2009
3390 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:15 pm to
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The latest Wikileaks release of leaked CIA cyberweapons includes "Scribbles" -- referred to by the CIA as the "Snowden Stopper" -- a watermarking tool that embeds web-beacon style tracking beacons into secret documents that quietly notify a central server every time the document is opened.

The beacons are references to image files hosted on a server the CIA controls. Rendering this image requires that the user's computer contact the CIA server to fetch a copy, giving the CIA insight into who is opening the document and when and where it is opened.


I am not defending nor attacking the CIA.

However, why the hell are you implying it is wrong for them to try to stop classified documents from being leaked?
Posted by Texas Weazel
Louisiana is a shithole
Member since Oct 2016
8541 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:16 pm to
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You're weird, bro.

You just figured that out?

Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
71925 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:17 pm to
No, but he's never been this creepy before.
This post was edited on 4/30/17 at 3:18 pm
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:21 pm to
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So what if I take a screenshot of the documents....i mean this seems a bit trivial to defeat


Well their list of suspects is narrowed due to knowing exactly who has opened said document, and when and where they did it.

In the military phones and cameras aren't allowed in top secret spaces, or where TS material is accessible. I'd imagine whoever screen shots a highly classified document didn't do so on the clock at the office. And yes there are higher ups who have access to the server from more private locations, but still, any inquiry into certain programs/documents are tracked.
This post was edited on 4/30/17 at 3:25 pm
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134865 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 3:25 pm to
Farkat Jezelnorpth was telling me about this.
Posted by MusclesofBrussels
Member since Dec 2015
4503 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 4:02 pm to
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No, but he's never been this creepy before.


He creates fake radio personalities and actually did a fake interview with himself on YouTube. He's been creepy for a long time
Posted by Lsuchs
Member since Apr 2013
8073 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 4:21 pm to
What is his YouTube name
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
71925 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 4:31 pm to
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He creates fake radio personalities and actually did a fake interview with himself on YouTube. He's been creepy for a long time


That's generally weird. His new obsession with NT and I is creepy. There are a few others here that are on that level.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
81897 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 4:33 pm to
It's actually crazy they didn't already have such a system in place.

God bless Snowden
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
71925 posts
Posted on 4/30/17 at 4:36 pm to
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