And if they are digital, how has there not been any sort of hack? ‘Anonymous’ or foreign actors would surely love to have a chance to air the dirty laundry, no?

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      I did not even think of putting a watermark in meta data. There are a lot of other ways to watermark documents if you care about who leaks it.

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          Out of curiosity how do you guarantee you’ve stripped out all identifiable marks if you don’t know they’re there?

          Not that I doubt your claim, but I used to water mark screeners for pre-release movies so if they turned up on torrent sites we’d know where they leaked from. We used unique pixel markings on pre-selected frames. I couldn’t imagine how anyone would know to look for them or recognize them for what they were in a 2k image unless they already knew what and where to look.

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              According to Senator Durbin there are over 100,00 “files”. It would take thousands of hours.

              You could use a script, but then you’re back to the same problem. You still have to ensure nothing’s coded into it.

              I think the best you could do with 100% certainty is cherry pick select documents if you had the ability to search them.