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> I've been known to employ somewhat similar tactics myself. How can we be sure?
Turns out I'd managed to access a significant trove of documents, admissible in court, strongly supporting my side's case.
I was in communication with several entities I suspected were communicating (directly or otherwise) with the opposing side, and while it was useful to communicate that we had significant information, detailing just what it was, or how it was obtained, was somewhat less so.
So the cover story we worked out was that we had deep connections to the black-hat online hacker community who were able to pull all kinds of random information out of the Net. Playing up the whole hacker mistique thing.
One consequence of this was opposing counsel strongly suspecting that the evidence we introduced wasn't admissible. They were rather surprised when it turned out to be very admissible. The fact that the opposing side's witnesses were shown to be markedly less than credible didn't help their side (and may have sabotaged their own case).
It was a vaguely satisfying aspect of an otherwise fairly unpleasant episode.