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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Do I need a tinfoil hat?
  • Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:38:56 -0400

This practice has been widely known about in the color laser copier field
for a while. I didn't know they had moved on to consumer printers. I
wonder if ink jet units have the same as they are much more suited to the
illegal purposes they worry about.

- Shea Tisdale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Minton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] Do I need a tinfoil hat?
>
> >From Slashdot
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/1210237
>
> "A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently
> broke the 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."
>
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