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April 29, 2017 05:04 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iAuvK1MAIv0/web-beacons-for-spooks.html
The CIA created a "Snowden Stopper" to catch future whistleblowers
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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