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WikiLeaks Reveals the 'Snowden Stopper': CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers (zerohedge.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Zero Hedge: As the latest installment of it's "Vault 7" series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as "Scribbles" (a.k.a. the "Snowden Stopper"), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of "web beacon" tags into documents "likely to be stolen." The web beacon tags are apparently able to collect information about an end user of a document and relay that information back to the beacon's creator without being detected. Per WikiLeaks' press release. But, the "Scribbles" user guide notes there is just one small problem with the program: it only works with Microsoft Office products. So, if end users use other programs such as OpenOffice of LibreOffice then the CIA's watermarks become visible to the end user and their cover is blown.
Or just use a machine not connected to any network when you open the files! Anyone who is opening stolen classified docs is going to use an air gapped machine
I assume everybody on this thread (including me) are different voices in some schizo's head.
You see it here once in awhile. A glimpse of their construct.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Going public instead of selling it is proof of patriotism.
If he wanted to do harm he would have only given it to one side, not all.
Is there something in the leaked documents that mention Snowden or whistleblowers?
This is a watermark system system mostly intended to unmask foreign spies. It wouldn't have stopped Snowden since he used airgaps and released everything at once after leaving and was quickly caught after that.
It looks similar to the kind of tool content owners use to track pirates.
Not all secret documents are stolen by whistleblowers and journalists, far, far from it.