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Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by idlewords on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:19PM (#10406575)
The clear solution is to give each LP different revenue numbers. That will make it trivial to identify the leaker.
Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by laluser on Saturday October 17, 2015 @09:56PM (#10406932)
Then by that same logic, can't the LPs just leak slightly modified number so they're not identified?
Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by idlewords on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:39PM (#10407135)
You monster
Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by jedberg on Saturday October 17, 2015 @08:38PM (#10406785)
Not a bad idea, except that it's illegal. If they invest on your phony numbers then they can sue you later for lying to them.
Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by gcb0 on Sunday October 18, 2015 @03:44AM (#10407520)
you never met a lawyer.

send notice to LP #1. subtract value from sending that note. send new value on a note to lp #2. subtract cost... put a note on all notes that they may be an hour out of date but represent the values as accurately as the law demands for that day.

Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by brianwawok on Saturday October 17, 2015 @09:00PM (#10406831)
Even if only a few cents?

What if you give everyone the same numbers in a different order? Or one spelling mistake in each release?

Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by jedberg on Saturday October 17, 2015 @09:51PM (#10406924)
Those other options would probably be more legal but less likely to "propagate" to the leak.
Re:Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts by tajen on Sunday October 18, 2015 @04:37AM (#10407608)
"Number watermarking" is a very good solution against many different kinds of leaks. I wonder whether there exist services for big companies to "watermark" internal documents with very insignificant errors.