The sketchy printer tracking feature that likely helped reveal the alleged NSA leaker

Alleged National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Reality Leigh Winner was reportedly identified after the FBI determined she had printed out a top secret report and shared it with The Intercept — but she might have been undone in part by a subtle code found on document itself, left by the printer.  

By the time The Intercept published an explosive report on June 5 alleging Russian cyberattacks on the U.S. voting system, the FBI had already arrested Winner as the suspect. The affidavit supporting the application for a warrant revealed that the documents provided to the NSA by The Intercept were clearly "folded or creased," which led officials to believe that the docs had been printed and physically secreted out of a "secured space." Investigators were then able to narrow down the list of suspects to six people who had printed the doc before settling on Winner.    Read more...