Article 2MRVV The CIA created a "Snowden Stopper" to catch future whistleblowers

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

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Cory Doctorow
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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. (more")

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