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.
1,361 posted on 6/20/2018, 4:09:39 PM by edzo4
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There was controversy about Tom Clancy’s death;
From Wikipedia: “Clancy died on October 1, 2013, of an undisclosed illness.[3] Since his death, his Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors.”
I remember lots of chatter that Clancy was too close to the truth in his novels and made some IC individuals uncomfortable. Then everything faded away with time.
A year ago I would have thought ‘tin foil’. Now, I question everything including what I thought I knew.
Wrongo, edzo.
Tyrion Lannister invented the canary trap when he told three councellors he suspected being loyal spies for the Queen, his sister.
Tyrion was well before Tom Clancy. Watch and learn, little edzo. :)
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