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Re:How to Leak to the Press by digitalengineer on Friday June 07, 2013 @07:33AM (#5838305)
Take in account they'll look at fingerprints, sweat, DNA, type of paper, ink and type of printer used. Spelling errors, how you wrote something, etc can also be used to identify you. (Every printer leaves it's own watermark). Perhaps best to print and use a old 2nd hand xerox machine to copy everything or fax it from a public faxservice.
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by atirip on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:06AM (#5838628)
Write in foreign language you do not master well. All your errors are then "childish" and untraceable.
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by tehmaco on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:48AM (#5838826)
Or run it through Google translate (or equivilent) a few times and manually correct any critical words in the end result.
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by raverbashing on Friday June 07, 2013 @10:36AM (#5839107)
Hopefully it doesn't log the messages... or does it?
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by skinnynerd on Friday June 07, 2013 @10:59AM (#5839265)
There are plenty of old typewriters lying around. Although you would still have to take precautions like getting rid of it afterwards and make sure it does not make use of polymer tape ribbons (in which case you would have to destroy and discard that as well).
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by smacktoward on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:04AM (#5839296)
Typewriters have signatures too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Forensic_examination
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by tomjen3 on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:30PM (#5840274)
Sure, but the government wouldn't have a database of those anywhere and getting rid of a typewriter isn't likely to get anybody noticed (I cleaned up in the attick the other day, can you believe what I found?).
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by skinnynerd on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:08AM (#5839320)
Good link, thanks.
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Re:How to Leak to the Press by rexreed on Friday June 07, 2013 @05:53PM (#5842212)
Even better, receipt / thermal printers. No ribbon and pretty much untraceable. Lots of them lying around second hand in flea markets and yard sales.
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