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How Investigators Tracked Down the D.C. Plane Crash Video Leaker
Police reports obtained by The Intercept show how sloppy op-sec led to criminal charges under a squishy state law.
However, in one of the videos published online by CNN, the following text appears to be briefly visible in a corner of the clip, The Intercept found: “Terminal 2 FAA Tower South View,” seemingly corresponding to the security camera feed from which it was recorded. Earlier this year, as part of a case against an alleged would-be leaker at the Defense Intelligence Agency, an FBI agent reviewed video surveillance footage of the suspect’s desk station, according to court documents. But Andrew Crocker, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has written about the federal counterpart to the Virginia law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, called the application in Mbengue’s case “pretty staggering.”
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