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fiatjaf ◴[] No.14504790[source]
I don't understand what could be done by governments with this kind of information. Please enlight me.
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Eric_WVGG ◴[] No.14504832[source]
An NSA contractor leaked information about the Russians meddling in the 2016 election to the press. She had been identified using these techniques.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/reality-leigh...

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1. schoen ◴[] No.14507084[source]
Note that the Times qualified this with: "And there may have been an even more glaring telltale that the F.B.I. did not mention in court filings." (So they were more cautious in that respect than other journalists, unfortunately.) In particular, the government has not acknowledged having used this evidence.