Washington Post fails to protect Deep Throat from metadata!

The Washington Post, famous for hiding the name of its Deep Throat source during the Watergate scandal, might have accidentally revealed the name of one of its sources in a less important yarn about a hacker…the article ran a doctored picture of 0x80 which when the people at Slashdot had a look at the metadata in the pic it revealed 0x80 lived in the town of Roland, population 2,842…

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