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Your Rights Online: Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:59:26 -0400
Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked Posted by CmdrTaco <http://cmdrtaco.net/> on Tuesday October 18, @08:50AM from the big-brother-pwnz-you dept. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=158> Privacy r84x <mailto:r84x@yREDHATahoo.comminusdistro> writes "A research team led by the Electronic <http://www.eff.org/> Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063> code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen." ( * <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/10/18/1210237.shtml?tid=158&tid=194> Read More... * 6 <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/10/18/1210237.shtml?tid=158&tid=194> of 7 <http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/1210237&threshold=-1&tid=15 8&tid=194> comments * yro.slashdot.org <http://yro.slashdot.org/> )
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