[Momaw Nadon]

FYI and discussion

[HairOfTheDog]

Pretty crafty! ;~)

[whenigettime]

Foil hat alert!

[MikefromOhio]

been posted and discussed....

[aft_lizard]

Nothing wrong with this. It was probably implimented to combat forging currency and can be used for other things such as ransom requests and threatening letters.

[MikefromOhio]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504404/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505440/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504528/posts

[strategofr]

" Electronic Frontier Foundation"

Up in arms about an attempt to prevent counterfeiting. The same group that was silent and unresponsive when, earlier this year, it looked like the FCC was going to create regulations, in response to a Supreme Court order, to restrict political free speech on the Internet.

(By the way, I never did hear about the resolution of the FCC situation, if there was any.)

[shooter223]

as in many other cases,the potential problem is not with the technology,but with the motives of the user. (Big Brother?)

[bubman]

Oh yeah? Then how come we haven't caught OBL? Is it because he's working for us? You give the gov't too much credit.

[Fido969]

Anyone tried to apply this to the Rather Documents yet?

[FReepaholic]

...US Secret Service confirmed that the tracking is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers to identify counterfeiters. ...

Interesting.

I've wondered if the US hasn't done the same thing with Microsoft's Windows software.

The Feds: "Bill, if you put in secret back doors in your software we'll let you off easy on our big lawsuit".

[japaneseghost]

This technology is not news. It's been open source on the bell-labs.com website for about 5 years. Every color laser printer in the world has this technology, unless someone pieced one together - but you'd need a Ph.D. in applied math to figure out how to build one.

[garyhope]

So, if they can track all my funny money, can they also track my crackpot letters to the NY Times too?

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[supercat]

If the details of the code are published, I would think it might be interesting if some hacker found out the serial number of a politician's printer and made use of that information.