Possible media leaks

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CIA 2010 covert communication websites / Possible media leaks by Ciro Santilli 40 2026-10-23
GPT-6 noticed the following not so mind-blowing facts about some media present in some of the websites
33 images on stickshiftnews.com record Photoshop saves on 2010-08-24, 14:16:41–14:17:50 at UTC-4 (Langley): a 69-second batch. This supports batch asset preparation possibly from ImageReady, and also gives us the exact Photoshop version used and operating system: Adobe Photoshop CS4 (released 2008). They used Windows. That's the real reason the network went down!
exiftool -r -q -if '$HistoryWhen' -p '$HistoryWhen | $HistoryAction | $HistorySoftwareAgent | $Directory/$FileName' stickshiftnews.com | sort
gives:
2010:08:24 14:16:41-04:00 | created | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows | stickshiftnews.com/20110207233507/images/199.jpg
2010:08:24 14:16:44-04:00 | saved | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows | stickshiftnews.com/20110207232515/images/2.jpg
...
2010:08:24 14:17:50-04:00 | created | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows | stickshiftnews.com/20110207232233/images/9.jpg
Four graphics across ballbatstumpsandbails.com and myhealthlibrary.net share uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94:
exiftool -r -q -if '$OriginalDocumentID eq "uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94"' -p '$Directory/$FileName | $OriginalDocumentID' ballbatstumpsandbails.com www.myhealthlibrary.net
gives:
ballbatstumpsandbails.com/20110202033048/images/bbsb-logo.jpg | uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94
ballbatstumpsandbails.com/20110202033025/images/cornerimg.jpg | uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94
www.myhealthlibrary.net/20111015023625/images/back.gif | uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94
www.myhealthlibrary.net/20111015023519/images/top.jpg | uuid:B48CC374F6E2DC1193D6E593F704EF94
However that same UUID also appears on a few unrealted Google hits e.g.:
so it cannot reliably establish a connection between their operators. TODO how did that come about. LLMs say that this UUID comes from PhotoShop and depends on the exact version, but they are not fully clear on the details of how they come about.
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