NSA Leaker Busted by Modern Printer Technology (Videos)
(N.Morgan) Since the exposure of NSA leaker Reality Winner, the Air Force Veteran charged with mailing classified material to a news outlet, information has come out about how this leaker was caught.
According to a recent article in Breitbart, a far-left activist named “Reality Leigh Winner” somehow received clearance to work for the National Security Agency, which she allegedly proceeded to rob of classified material in the name of the kookburger anti-Trump “Resistance.” In the post-Edward Snowden era, how does someone like this get anywhere near sensitive data?
An arrest warrant for a NSA contractor named Reality Winner was issued, showing how the authorities tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to the media outlet, The Intercept.
How was Reality Winner able to obtain such a high level security job, when her attitude towards to current sitting President is so hostile?
Hostility she expressed very openly on her Twitter account.
The U.S. Intelligence Agencies are now faced with the daunting task of coming up with a better vetting system to keep enemies and spies out of our intelligence agencies.
It has become very clear with this incident with Reality Winner that there has been a breakdown in the vetting system for protecting access to top secret, classified information and documents.
What is even more alarming is how the NSA and Feds utilized a function that certain computer printers possess: several printers print a pattern of yellow dots that, when decoded, can offer insight on who created a document, and when, which led to Reality Winner being busted for leaking.
Since those agencies log and keep records of any and all hardware usage, it was easy for the government to figure out who crossed them in the Reality Winner case.
The document posted by the Intercept isn’t the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later included.
The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots that track and trace exactly when and where documents, any document, are printed.
Because all government agencies log all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document.
You can download the document from the original article here.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation stated in 2015 that “the documents that we previously received through a (Freedom of Information Request) suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable….it is probably safest to assume that all modern color laser printers do include some form of tracking information that associates documents with the printer’s serial number.”
The video below describes three different ways to see the tracking dots your printer produces: with a blue light, with a microscope, or with a scanner. If you don’t have the necessary equipment for a particular step, go on to the next one.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has put a list together of printers which do or do not display tracking dots which can be viewed here.
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
The guide link above is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project.
It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout.
In the video below, The Kim Komando Show gives tips on about why you should think about what information of your devices might be storing and why it’s especially critical to wipe computers, cellphones and tablets, but other gadgets you might not expect can store data as well, including printers.
Our country faces a double edged sword in keeping top secret intelligence secret and still maintaining our right to privacy.
Have you or anyone you know been tracked and surveilled through their printer?
Let us know your experiences in the comments below.
References:
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html#.WTf1sevyuM8
https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/06/nsa_leaker_outed_by_modern_printer_technology
https://hardforum.com/threads/nsa-leaker-outed-by-modern-printer-technology.1936253/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0qQyvupcx0&feature=youtu.be
http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your-Printer-Spying-on-/
http://www.komando.com/tips/331796/one-critical-thing-to-do-with-your-printer-before-selling-it/all
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I’m an old copier tech going back to the eighties. When color copiers were first produced counterfeiting became a real problem so this yellow dot pattern was introduced for tracking purposes. To see the dot patterns clearly. Place a blank sheet of paper on glass. Run a color copy. Take that copy (which appears blank) and lay it face down on glass. Use the function that converts yellow to black and you will clearly see the image in black dots. Of course there will be another yellow set printed along with the black ones.
That’s my girl!
“Make the lie BIG, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” Adolf Hitler/Hillary Clinton/Bill the Rapist/Butt- rock O-vomit
Hello Angle#3,
Charlie here. It seems not even your printer is so safe anymore. It is being used to track you. Big Brother really is watching you. So what is exactly safe and untraceable??
Bitcoins? NO, doughnuts!
Everybody loves them, everybody eats them. Good luck with finding out who ate the last doughnut on the office table!!
Signed,
Charlie (they accused me but I swear I didn’t eat it)
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i knew about this 25 years ago which makes this article based on ignorance at best.
Welcome to the show. The “Spycraft Show” that is. Another young patsy being used and abused by the Goobermint. They set her up to take the fall from day one, as the Clapper-Trapper recently testified before CON-gress and used the word “unwittingly”.
Here you go folks. They are airing their demonic and dis-honest trade craft, right n front of the entire world to see how just how it is that “they operate”. Every agency spying on each other and spying on innocent Americans. All accomplished with ZERO consent of the American People. ZERO CONSENT!!!!!!
If anyone has studied History, they know very well that what is unfolding here in the good old USA, is in fact exactly what Nazi Germany looked like in 1939, prior to the start of WW2.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Keep reading below.
Just Look around you. It is all in place. The illegal check points, FEMA Camps, surveillance cameras everywhere, National ID system, bio marker tracking, cell phone tracking, voice recordings taken without consent, illegal home raids, illegal asset forfeiture, Child Protective Services stealing, killing torturing and eating our children. No end in sight, so on and on, and on it goes. Laughing at you and raping your mind. All the while mocking GOD and spitting in his face.
What a flipping mess.
Evil and twisted pricks, energy vampires and emotional hijackers. – FTNWO- 
She’ll spend her life in prison for releasing a fake document (just FBI speculation, no actual investigation) that has absolutely ZERO to do with Trump. No one ever said that democrats were the brightest bunch, except dumb them.
NOT! This is propaganda! Her ridiculous name should give it away! This was a propaganda piece to convince any of the traitors working in these positions to don’t think about being a whistleblower! Her ridiculous fake parents being interviewed and full of duping delight just by saying her name should be all the proof you need! The fake news doesn’t report anything true anymore
What if you only print in black and white?
This story is ANOTHER PROPAGANDA (fake) story, just like the thousand others we’ve been sold the last 20 yrs! Just the name alone should tell you! Watch her fake parents do an interview and that should remove any doubt of that! Her parents say her name and can’t contain their duping delight! They aren’t concerned and scared for her or being caught! I can go on and on about how this story is fake, but if you haven’t woke up to the reality of Sandy Hook hoax, Boston smoke bombing, or The fake ISIS Greenscreen beheadings combined with the fake MOAB bombing that the military showed an aerial footage of this fake flame bombing in the middle of nowhere with no date-time stamp and a Google Map location pin icon just below the fake flames then you best wake up to the reality that everything the MSM pushes is FAKE