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by erdos4d 1912 days ago
I knew about this aspect of printers more than a decade ago, before I ever got into tech, so I'm 100% sure it was/is semi-widely known. It's really sad that the Intercept and other news orgs are so technically oblivious that they would screw their source like this.
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Is was very widely and publicly known. I usually hesitate to say things like this, but the conclusion is unavoidable: either the whistleblower and the people working at the Intercept are colossal idiots, or the whole narrative is fake.
Or the Intercept is a whistleblower honeypot