Scribbles

WikiLeaks Reveals The “Snowden Stopper”: CIA Tool To Track Whistleblowers

The CIA tool purportedly relies on Microsoft Office to track leaked documents and the whistle-blowers that release them. (Photo: Nigel Treblin/AP)
As the latest installment of it’s ‘Vault 7’ series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the “Snowden Stopper”), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.”