WikiLeaks Reveals The “Snowden Stopper”: CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers.
As the latest installment of it’s ‘Vault 7’ series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the “Snowden Stopper”), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.” The web beacon tags are apparently able to collect information about an end user of a document and relay that information back to the beacon’s creator without being detected.
Word to CIA … CIA’s new first rule of stopping the next Manning/Snowden should be - don’t leave CIA document tracking software on suspected source’s computer.