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Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You
EFF ^ | 17 Oct 05 | Seth Schoen

Posted on 10/18/2005 6:54:07 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat

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Update to earlier post.

EFF has cracked the code for Xerox. Anybody can now know the print date and serial number of the Xerox color laser printer you use to print anything. Other brands coming soon.

So, FReepers, be careful of what you print.

1 posted on 10/18/2005 6:54:10 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Paging Michael Rivero. Michael Rivero.... please pick up the white courtesy phone.
2 posted on 10/18/2005 6:55:36 AM PDT by kjam22
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Let's get "cracking" on those National Guard documents!


3 posted on 10/18/2005 6:56:57 AM PDT by vollmond (Careful with that axe, Eugene!)
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To: antiRepublicrat
What about a copy of a certain memo from Kinkos in Texas? I wonder if this can be tracked. That would be the icing on the cake!
4 posted on 10/18/2005 6:56:57 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: antiRepublicrat

bump


5 posted on 10/18/2005 6:57:02 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I can see the fnords...


6 posted on 10/18/2005 6:57:14 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a leftist with a word processor.)
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To: frogjerk

We tied!


7 posted on 10/18/2005 6:57:38 AM PDT by vollmond (Careful with that axe, Eugene!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Track this!

8 posted on 10/18/2005 6:57:57 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: vollmond
We tied!

WOW!

9 posted on 10/18/2005 6:58:57 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: antiRepublicrat
"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.

I dunno...sounds a bit tinfoilesque to me.

10 posted on 10/18/2005 6:59:43 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Like a midget at a urinal - stay on your toes...)
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To: ErnBatavia

The EFF might be many things, but they aren't tinfoilers.


11 posted on 10/18/2005 7:02:34 AM PDT by Terpfen (Bush is playing chess. Remember that, and stop playing checkers.)
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To: antiRepublicrat
If you are not doing anything illegal, this should not bother you.

Those printing money, drivers license, social security cards, false IDs etc. should worry a lot.....

12 posted on 10/18/2005 7:02:38 AM PDT by yoe
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To: vollmond

I would think the analog B&W copying at Kinkos would destroy this.

Indeed, any B&W print would be safe.


13 posted on 10/18/2005 7:02:59 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: antiRepublicrat

Just avoid laser printers, from the look of things that are discussed here.


14 posted on 10/18/2005 7:03:45 AM PDT by BIRDS
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Liberals are going to hate this. Everytime they print fake documents aledging some famous republican was gay we can trace exactly what printer they used to forge em.


15 posted on 10/18/2005 7:03:53 AM PDT by x5452
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To: ErnBatavia

This was announced and started early last year.


16 posted on 10/18/2005 7:03:58 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: yoe

"If you are not doing anything illegal, this should not bother you."

Yeah, and the Clintons didn't use the IRS to abuse their critics.

Print a criticle article: get harrassed. Heck, get investigated and spend $100,000 making sure you don't get railroaded into jail for doing nothing.

When thinking about government power, assume Hillary Clinton is president with Jame Carville running the FBI.


17 posted on 10/18/2005 7:05:47 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: antiRepublicrat

Seems that the issue is that laser printers are potentially (and are, actually) used by counterfitters and other document forgers to do their dirty deeds.

Using an inkjet is fine for most printed documents otherwise, for most people. Laser printers are great for profound b&w documents, so it also seems it's a case of color lasers being appealing to the wrong clients for their wrongful deeds.

Most people don't have all that much to protect that isn't already knowable to those who need to know, if/when there is or isn't criminal behavior going on. I don't LIKE the idea of being spied upon and read up on -- not at all -- but I'd just avoid color lasers and use an inkjet and not engage in forging documents!

Or use a color laser with the knowledge that what you're printing is potentially viewable to others. Everything at Kinko's has been for a while now (not at all private).


18 posted on 10/18/2005 7:07:34 AM PDT by BIRDS
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To: antiRepublicrat

Why do I think the ACLU might have something to say about this?


19 posted on 10/18/2005 7:09:07 AM PDT by RedCell
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To: MeanWestTexan

In my experience, ALL politicians use governmental agencies to invade the lives of those they perceive as not being in their pocket or predictable.

They do seem to be increasing instances of rewarding those who are most harmful and harassing those who are most vulnerable, and all across the board. I think we have a bad Congress, all told.


20 posted on 10/18/2005 7:09:53 AM PDT by BIRDS
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