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gosub100 2 hours ago

You could do really sneaky things like alter the space between words or other formatting tricks.

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ceejayoz an hour ago | parent [-]

Print it out, scan it back in, and OCR that.

Then have an AI or intern paraphrase it.

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kube-system 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Then you fix that loophole by subtlety altering the phrasing or formatting that you send everyone

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palmotea 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think that's exactly what will happen.

When a competent journalist gets a leaked document, they'll learn to only summarize it, but won't quote it verbatim or duplicate it. That'll circumvent and kind of passive leak-detection system that could reveal their source.

Then the only thing that would reveal the source is if the authority starts telling suspected leakers entirely different things, to see what gets out.

	▲	jihadjihad 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Then the only thing that would reveal the source is if the authority starts telling suspected leakers entirely different things, to see what gets out. This is called a canary trap [0], a well-trodden technique in the real world and fiction alike. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap