We can all lie, but the METADATA never lies :: Mmegi Online

In May this year, journalists from The Intercept, an investigative journalism organisation well known for reporting on the United States of America’s (USA) National Security Agency (NSA) documents by Edward Snowden, were handed a document detailing how the Russians hacked an electronic voting machine in Florida.

In a fit of excitement and perhaps impetuousness, the journalists approached NSA officials with the document to verify that indeed they had obtained an authentic document. Few hours after the scoop was published in June, NSA zeroed in on the leaker. Without any hubbub, the leaker was uncovered and immediately arrested.

The 25-year-old NSA contractor, Reality Leigh Winner was identified as the woman behind the leak to The Intercept. How did this happen? Did The Intercept reveal her identity to NSA? The simple answer is metadata. Yes metadata.

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