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> "She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document."

I posted elsewhere, but is more appropriate here: The document itself struck me as checking for leaks. (Misspelled "hight"? No stamp?)



Misspelled "hight"?

Occam's razor reminds you that this is a third-world bureaucracy where English is not the native language. Not every typo hides a spy thriller.


Next you'll tell me that DaVinci did not hide clues about Christianity in his work or something...


Please explain how typos help check for leaks


You give a different version of the document to each person, with unique typos in each one. If the document gets leaked, you know who did it - the typos form a "signature".

Sometimes a typo is just a typo though.


Everybody involved gets a slightly different unique version of a document. It would be clumsy to do it with typos, better to change the justification.


If you release multiple copies of the document, each with a slight variation, then keep track of who got which version, you can (potentially) figure out who leaked the document.




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