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A comment on Twitter discloses national security letters.

Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by martinvol on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:51PM (#13503473)
Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by Sanddancer on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:03PM (#13503546)
No. The DOJ has standardized on Courier for a font, and Courier's a built in font on pretty much all decent word processing programs and printers. The State Department used to use it too, but switched to Times New Roman some years ago.
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by ycmbntrthrwaway on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:58PM (#13503510)
They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by krzrak on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:06PM (#13503567)
> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

Could you please elaborate?

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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by nutschig on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:11PM (#13503602)
Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by nutschig on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:12PM (#13503610)
Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp
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