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Scrubber An OSS compilation to protect sources

We’ve all heard the unfortunate events that lead the imprisonment of whistleblower Reality Winner. The protection of sources has been a challenge for journalists since the birth of the trade, but it’s become even more difficult in the age of document leaks. With fingerprints, watermarks, exif data, etc, there seems to be an infinite number of ways that a document could be linked back to the source and seemingly equal is the number of ways to “scrub” them.

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