Archived How pre-teens using metadata found a whistleblower in two hours (abc.net.au)
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Archived How pre-teens using metadata found a whistleblower in two hours (abc.net.au)
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[–] Gorillion 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Ah, was a bit worried about this for a moment. Thinking that they'd successful bred a new generation of kids who had drunk the koolaid on "them bad bad whistleblowers".
But it was a demonstration of Australia's creepy cybersecurity laws allowing easy tracking of anybody by using metadata, but in this case they were able to reveal a false (for the purpose of the test) whistleblower and track him to his home.