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To: Deaf Smith

That is an old spymaster’s trick. Produce multiple copies of a document but with identifiable errors that tell which copy was leaked. Could be a double period where a single period shoud be, missing commas, figures altered slightly in a table, misspellings of a word and so on. It looks like the original but differs just enough to have unique tells.


46 posted on 09/24/2021 10:55:05 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt; Deaf Smith

> That is an old spymaster’s trick. Produce multiple copies of a document but with identifiable errors that tell which copy was leaked. Could be a double period where a single period shoud be, missing commas, figures altered slightly in a table, misspellings of a word and so on. It looks like the original but differs just enough to have unique tells.

“Canary trap.”


90 posted on 09/24/2021 1:28:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | http://mewe.com/i/hopalongginsberg)
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