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They meant for identification of leaker. But IMHO it's useless. Anybody could claim they had their laptop stolen.

Also you could just have two different accounts, buy the file, compare the two files and identify any differences, overwrite the differences with blanks/gibberish

Or just use OCR.

Only if they have filed a police report...

Okay, not stolen, but attacked with malware.

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