Meet the GIMP (ep 201)

Rolf just released a new episode of Meet the GIMP on opsec!

https://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-201-opsec/

The TOC:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:50 Leaking from the NSA
00:01:35 Little yellow dots on laser print
00:03:00 Gimp 2.9 fired up
00:03:30 Search for the yellow dots
00:04:20 Colour Channels
00:06:00 Extract a colour component
00:06:40 Split view – new in filter dialogs
00:07:15 Searching for the pattern
00:07:55 New things in the layer dialog
00:08:30 Searching for the pattern
00:10:10 Crop tool
00:10:30 Measuring the pattern
00:11:35 Adding a precise grid
00:12:45 30 bytes of data in the yellow dots!
00:14:00 What’s not in the code?
00:15:00 Printing leaves traces
00:16:25 Blunder of “The Intercept”
00:17:00 Anonymising a scan with the threshold tool
00:18:30 The mono mixer for getting red back in
00:20:00 Return of the Minox for leakers?
00:21:00 We need a guide about OPSEC!
00:21:44 End of video

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The printer story was all over the news. It didn’t surprise me though since printers have always left traces of some sort. Oh, the art I used to make with dot-matrix printers…

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