Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated
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Somedays, paranoia is a survival skill.
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It occurs to me that the obvious marking with spaces & the like may be a decoy that's there to trick you into thinking you've outsmarted them. It's worth assuming that they are as smart as we are.
In text files misspellings are a risk...
* Odd misspellings, especially combinations of misspellings.
* Use of characters that look like English letters but that come from non-English character sets.
* Use of non-space "whitespace" characters.
* Forced line breaks.
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/On-the-Removal-of-Steganographic-Content-from-Amritha-Sethumadhavan/ff77928f6595231c42974c9c34310b0a1bcc7def
https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php
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Hitler had complete control of Germany in 53 days There isn't much time - MOBILIZE !
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i was just gobsmacked that we are at the point of discourse where safeguarding ourselves from our own government’s intrusions is actually happening
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#arrestMusk
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Fuck whatever “identification” they intend to perform because they have no legal authority or jurisdiction as a democratically-created government institution.
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Wait, wait, they were just doing their job, right? That didn’t work out so well.
This isn’t a “have your cake and eat it too” moment, unless you want to be eaten yourself.
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I 👀 you chucklefucks.
Either we fight back and win and they receive the constitutional prescription for treason.
Or we lose and China kills them and us.
Or we lose and they die of old age.
This is not what I had in mind.
This keyboard doesn't even have multiple fonts like a smartphone might.
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I don't think we can assume that anyone who is suspected of leaking will be afforded due process.
The reason that checking is hard is because you can use different phrasing or synonyms to tag a message.
These are scary times.
#BanishMusk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
The "obvious stuff" may be a decoy to make people think they have cleaned up documents before the share them...
Em vs. en dashes is one I hadn't considered until you mentioned it!
Folks sharing evidence have to be very wary.
We've GOT to get Mr. Palast on every media outlet. We've GOT to get lawyers to sue state election officials to release the data on purged voters. Spread it
NEXT MIDTERM ELECTIONS ARE VITAL!!!
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Thank you so much for your service!!!
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If it's not deterministic, and if it doesn't take a shine to the synonym that your copy is tagged with.
I think it's safer to paraphrase in your own words and to be very careful of "interesting" words.
I will say, because I use a scrubbed device/account to play with them, I've had some surprising responses to prompts. Not sure how well they'd do with raw copy though
They aren’t visible to the user, but if you copy paste them, they will persist.
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How many characters are there in the first line?
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There is software available to do this easily.
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