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THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID we have know about the canary trap since LAST JULY...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3664050/posts?q=1&;page=1361

Trump and the Canary Trap July 10, 2017

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/trump_and_the_canary_trap_.html

Any “official” who has been leaking should be concerned, and here’s why. One method the Trump administration is likely using to identify these leakers is called “the canary trap,” a term coined by Tom Clancy in his novel Patriot Games. The canary trap is a method for organizations (including many intelligence agencies and private businesses) to determine who is improperly providing information to those not eligible to receive it. They do this by “leaking” certain information, often false, and then following it to see who ends up with it and how they did so.

The method cited in Patriot Games applies to documents. Each copy of a sensitive document is printed with slightly different punctuation, word usage, etc. to make it unique. If a reporter quoted certain parts of the document, that uniqueness would identify the document and the one person who had given it to the reporter. This process can be partly automated now by use of computer synonym generators.

Although coined by Tom Clancy, the technique has a long history in intelligence circles. When U.S. forces were attempting to determine when and where the next Japanese attack would take place in the Pacific, a group of Navy codebreakers under Captain James Rochefort who in turn worked for Admiral Chester Nimitz used a different version of the technique to determine that the Japanese Navy’s next target was Midway.

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