https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...
I guess engineers at Google have too short of tenure to actually remember the precedent.
Did you read the link?
Hell, even a re-encode/format change, or stripping of format info can moot the entire premise.
I welcome Musk to demonstrating his own psychosis/neurosis. It doesn't really speak to any fundamental cleverness.
Furthermore, were I a journalist receiving such material, I'd damn well make sure to change how I communicated it enough to neutralize attempts at such watermarking, simply because I know people are pre-disposed to such acts as he did.
In fact, if you're going for maximum Discordian Malcontent high score, and you're confident you're operating under such scrutiny, neutralize a copy you leak, then carefully orchestrate the planting of false trails to keep the spook wannabes chasing their tails, which can end up blowing back on the orchestrator for waste of resources. This works better with a larger team though where Spartacus dynamics start kicking in. Sample size 1 tends to leave sufficient metadata from neutral parties to rehome in on a common perpetrator.
This is why labor organization scares the living shit out of people like Musk, and other large holders of capital/abusive management types. Info asymmetry, fear, and disunity are some of their most potent weapons.
Wisdom tends to prevail on the side of "don't do shit somebody'd find leak worthy, and you won't have this problem".
I recall a story about Jobs tracking down leakers in his own executive suite by telling each of them a slightly different things in private. Not sure if it worked, but it can be a very effective deterrent.
Surely the extra whitespace would disappear in the DTP systems used by the press?
If it must be fictional, try the original superman.
He should have used different stories.
It also might make her suspect misinformation as there are three different values coming to her at once and she’ll have to deduce what’s more likely that all three informants are lying, or misunderstand, or Tyrion fed them bad info.
Much more likely to have three independent stories so that the traitors will be revealed even if there are multiples.
In the current scenario, if Varys and Littlefinger snitch then Tyrion won’t know because Cersei will hear Greyjoy and Vale and not reveal what she knows to Tyrion because it conflicts as Myrcella can’t be married to two different groups.
The better scenario would be something like “Myrcella marries Dorne to Pycelle; 1,000 ships sent to Westeros to Varys; I’m appointing Jaime as lord of casterly rock” then each betrayal could be known.
If Varys and Littlefinger snitch in this scenario Cersei will look into ships and casterly rock and reveal the betrayers to Tyrion.
I found it odd because they weren’t really pertinent and seemed really unique that I’ve never heard of anyone else with the condition.
I suspected he did this to try to determine who they can trust when he would remark that people were liars or not trustworthy and one time a coworker told me a completely different weird detail about them.
I never got a chance to ask them about this technique before we stopped working together.
Because I can't figure out how this would be helpful in any other context.
I never revealed the info because it was said in confidence. But we weren’t really that close so it stood out to me.
My example was made up but the actual factoids were about medical issues and bodily functions. It wasn’t creepy or anything just not something I would want widely known.
But also very interesting!
Funny when you would see devices pop up on the internet with these little things, and wonder who lost their contracts/jobs/etc/...
When Palm was creating the Pre, we had some security dude come to our lab to show us how to securely store, transport, test and inventory devices. It was crazy.
https://waxy.org/2014/01/ellen_degeneres_walter_mitty_screen...
Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), maps, and directories. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious entry, such as Mountweazel, trap street, paper town, phantom settlement, and nihilartikel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
In cartography, a trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential plagiarists of the map who, if caught, would be unable to explain the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map as innocent. On maps that are not of streets, other "trap" features (such as nonexistent towns, or mountains with the wrong elevations) may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.
Supposedly, even today, Apple will assign employees (especially new ones) fake projects in an effort to weed out leakers.
We used EMC's Team Rooms, and it was quite fun to run a full-text search across our tenant a few months later.