FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You
3 months ago
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- Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist, was charged with unlawful retention of national defense information.
- Investigators used an office printer's logs to track Perez-Lugones' activities, including printing classified materials.
- Perez-Lugones allegedly took screenshots of classified documents, cropped them, and pasted into a Word document to avoid detection.
- The employer's printer management software could view the actual contents of printed materials, not just metadata.
- Perez-Lugones was also observed taking notes from a classified document, suggesting video surveillance was in use.
- The article also discusses concerns about Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies and threats to press freedom.
- The Intercept calls for support to expand its reporting capacity to combat threats to democracy and press freedom.