The handling at The Intercept was amateur journalism at best, and at worst a cynical ploy (incriminate their source, hence confirmation, generate a media storm and clicks). They ignored fundamental techniques to protect sources: retyping documents without formatting, spell checking them, sharing only small snippets of text, in person instead of allowing retention, confirming via an external expert.
Of course, even without the printout they would have got her, she had terrible OPSEC.
The handling at The Intercept was amateur journalism at best, and at worst a cynical ploy (incriminate their source, hence confirmation, generate a media storm and clicks). They ignored fundamental techniques to protect sources: retyping documents without formatting, spell checking them, sharing only small snippets of text, in person instead of allowing retention, confirming via an external expert.
Of course, even without the printout they would have got her, she had terrible OPSEC.