Is your color printer SPYING on you?

[Admin]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow_Dots_of_Mystery_Is_Your_Printer_Spying_on_/

Weird, but interesting.   And yes, the dots are there and in different places on my color printers.   The OKI has a different pattern than the Kodak QMS system.   No more printing money for me!  whew!  that was close!


http://www.eff.org/press/mentions/2008/8/26
"Despite persistent concern from privacy organisations, leading printer companies are still using secret tracking dots that can identify which laser printer printed a document"

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections/steg-color-copier-dot-code.htm

WOW!


You can submit your printouts to the following database:
http://dotspotter.ultrasec.de/

[Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo]

it's just a finger print. Just like in the days of typewriters, each one had particular scratches and other deformities that can be used to identify the device used to create a page.

It comes in handy for law enforcement in cases of kidnapping for instance.

[Admin]

Its really amazing the things that go on in the "background" of everyday life like that.   Who would ever think there was a secret code on every page printed!  


I tried using my Ovaltine Secret Society decoder pin, but the only message I could decode was "buy more HP toner"