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Comment by qb45

8 years ago

1. The actual reason she was arrested is because she admitted leaking it.

2. The story about only six printouts and e-mail correspondence is the official cover to draw public attention away from the yellow dots.

3. The yellow dots is how they actually found her and why she had no reasonable choice but to admit leaking, which allowed 1 to happen without drawing attention to the yellow dots.

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us0r  8 years ago

> why she had no reasonable choice but to admit leaking

While I didn't make my first year of law school I feel like nearly every criminal defense attorney in this country would disagree with this statement.

nerpderp83  8 years ago

I for one would like a class action lawsuits against printer companies and the government for wasting my money on yellow toner.

  • caliagent  8 years ago

    Maybe it's already been accounted for in the forced waste? My cartridges always say they're empty when there is clearly plenty usable ink left inside.

otterley  8 years ago

Do you have a reference for this claim?

  • qb45  8 years ago

    It's merely speculation but I think it's plausible:

    If some random journalist was able to decode the dots, the NSA probably decoded them too because why not.

    The fact that they know how many people printed this document shows that they keep detailed printing logs so they shouldn't have trouble finding out who exactly used this specific printer at this specific time. And if you think about it, this is exactly what they should be doing instead of relying solely on weaker evidence.

    Then they searched her work computer and got some more evidence (the e-mail contact, maybe more they aren't sharing).

    They presented whatever evidence was sufficient to convince her and the public that they know it was her, she doesn't seem very tech-savvy, freaked out, told everything and now it's done.

banku_brougham  8 years ago

this is an interesting angle, i assume because there are no references this is merely speculation?

actually, since the dots are not at all a secret, #3 cant be right. #2 is a bold claim, obviously pure speculation. So #1, is this true? please link source.