Anonymous ID: ff2fc8 Aug. 20, 2021, 6:58 a.m. No.14405706   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5721

https://theoutline.com/post/1713/the-history-of-the-secret-printer-code-that-may-have-caught-the-nsa-leaker

 

JUN—13—2017 11:30AM EST

 

A once secret code, invisible to the naked eye, may have been one of the markers used to identify and eventually arrest NSA leaker Reality Winner. Security researchers have theorized that Winner’s downfall could have been a small set of dots in the corner of the Top Secret analysis she printed and mailed to online news outlet The Intercept.

 

Just by using a microscope on a document, Schoen could tell which Kinko’s in San Francisco it was printed from, but he wondered if he could determine the origin of any Kinko’s printed document in the country. EFF fans began heading out to their local Kinko’s and mailing Schoen their documents. Thanks to a volunteer who came into the EFF office to help analyze the patterns, they were able to realize the dots were just a binary code set in a grid. Not only that, but that these dots signified the printer’s serial number, as well as the date and time the document was printed. Then Schoen created a computer program which allowed anyone to punch in the dots they found on their documents to see what data they contain.

 

“There was kind of a disturbing moment back in 2005 when someone who read our website called the printer company and said ‘I want to know how to turn [microdots] off,’” Schoen says. That call resulted in a visit from the Secret Service.

 

Law enforcement agencies have worked to keep the method for identifying a printer based on its microdots secret, and now some printers use an updated version of microdots that are much more complex and spread across the page. That code has yet to be cracked.

Anonymous ID: ff2fc8 Aug. 20, 2021, 7:57 a.m. No.14406099   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/son-of-lion-of-panjshir-takes-forward-father-anti-taliban-legacy-1843371-2021-08-20

 

Son of the slain 'Lion of Panjshir', Ahmad Shah Massoud, is taking forward his father's legacy of anti-Taliban resistance in the picturesque valley of Afghanistan's Panjshir province, which still remains free from the Taliban.

 

The slain 'Lion of Panjshir', Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was the face of resistance against the Taliban and earlier the Soviets in Afghanistan, left behind the legacy to his 32-year-old son. Like his father, Ahmad Massoud is now standing up for the Afghan people.

 

Ahmad is the eldest among Massoud senior’s six children and he is the only son. He has launched an anti-Taliban front from the picturesque valley of Afghanistan's Panjshir province along with Amrullah Saleh, who was the Vice-President of Afghanistan in the Ashraf Ghani government and now claims to be the caretaker President.

 

Massoud senior, a loyal son of Panjshir - the epicentre of the anti-Taliban movement - was killed in a conspiracy hatched by the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in 2001 just before the 9/11 attacks. Ahmad was only 12 when his father was assassinated.

 

“I write from the Panjshir Valley today, ready to follow in my father’s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban. We have stores of ammunition and arms that we have patiently collected since my father’s time, because we knew this day might come,” Ahmad wrote.

 

He claims his anti-Taliban front has the support of members of the Afghan military and has weapons and arms for the fight.

Anonymous ID: ff2fc8 Aug. 20, 2021, 8:11 a.m. No.14406194   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6213

https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/8/a/8ae8ef02-92b1-49fe-ba2e-26422dd6fbdf/69F7A891D694850CA6FBAA51F5962E1B.081821-afghanistan-letter-journalists.pdf