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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1757/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Documents secretly encoded by color printers In a nutshell, depending on your printer, information about where it comes and what computer was used to print from is written into the page...basically, when you print a page, an almost "transparent" fingerprint is also put on it... scary if you think about it... so, question is, should something like this be done or not? |
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Smallhacker Green Birdo SMW Hacking Moderator Level: 68  Posts: 950/2273 EXP: 2647223 For next: 81577 Since: 03-15-04 From: Söderhamn, Sweden Since last post: 10 hours Last activity: 9 hours |
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| Oh my god! That's scary! I'm happy that I've "only" got a black/white laser printer. :/ | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 1723/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| They said laser printers my friend. I'm just saddened with the passing of my beloved vintage Dot Matrix black and white printer. It was truly a beautiful piece of work, it kept going after all the (sexual) abuse I put it through...Printing off pornography just to see how funny it would look on that printer. But this is a serious intrusion into people's privacy. And it should be rectified, because if private finance documents are traced through some database cracking, people could easily increase the amount of identification theft there is. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 1360/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| This is just like typewriters, every typewriter was a little bit different from another due to the mechanics, so it was possible to tell what came from which typewriter. | |||
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1758/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| with typewriters, it was a byproduct of the design. something like that can't be helped since there really isn't another way to design the mechanics. This, however, has nothing to do with the mechanics. It is another step in the process that is essentially optional. Removing that extra signature feature does not change what gets printed as a whole. | |||
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Kefka Indefinitely Unbanned Level: 81 Posts: 2366/3392 EXP: 4826208 For next: 166641 Since: 03-15-04 From: Pomona, CALIFORNIA BABY! Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Pretty soon, Big Brother is going to ban all those documents that have too big of words on them  And then... and then... no one will be allowed to read at all soon... and then... and then... we'll be watching executions on TV, and having bombshells fly all around us without a care... and uh... I'll join Big Brother    This is some scary shit though. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 6252/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| I have a laser printer, an B&W one. So heh i'm not really worried. Besides, I doubt HP haves my home address. Unless the shop gives out that kind of information to them in Sweden. Hell we can contact HP and ask them if they have any information about us and we can change it... if it's wrong. |
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Skreename Koopa Level: 18 Posts: 49/107 EXP: 27049 For next: 2848 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 3 hours |
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| I'd think it'd be actually not too bad a thing. One more step that can be used for verifying something actually comes from a certain source. And if someone getting a hold of some printed document and being able to trace it to you would allow them to easily steal your identity... You need to seriously rethink what you're doing. | |||
Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 5380/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| We have a 6 year old printer and we | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 830/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Saw this on Slashdot very recently, and it doesn't surprise me at all. Doesn't surprise me that it's been going on for a long time either. The fact that Lexmark's printer drivers spy on you surprised me slightly more, but when I think about it, I don't know why I'm surprised at all. Bleh, I miss the old HP printers. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 5382/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Cymoro PATRICK DUFFY WILL LASER YOUR SOUL   Level: 67  Posts: 1514/2216 EXP: 2549743 For next: 43129 Since: 03-15-04 From: Cymoro Gaming Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| What you do is simply switch the color chambers around and, in a program like Photoshop, change the colors accordingly so that when you print, it prints right, but the police will be looking for the wrong color. Besides, cash = untraceable. |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101  Posts: 3091/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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Originally posted by Cymoro Not true. I'm sure you know of the strips they put in $5 dollar bills and above? Well, those are scanned in a lot of places you go but most noticeably, airports. Pass through a metal detector and they know exactly how much cash you have, and where you are. |
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Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 160/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Umm... Leg? If you're in an airport, they know where you are anyway.  Probably misworded that.Anyway, I think it's bullshit, really. But hey, I never print things anyway. And besides, we have inkjet printers, I think... |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99 Posts: 1770/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Cash is untraceable. If you keep all of your money in bills and coin, after about two circulations it becomes completely "lost" to the system. #1 reason why the gov. puts money into Interac and other plastic money programs. | |||
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Cymoro PATRICK DUFFY WILL LASER YOUR SOUL Level: 67 Posts: 1515/2216 EXP: 2549743 For next: 43129 Since: 03-15-04 From: Cymoro Gaming Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Leg: It's near impossible for someone to get your identification and location of residence from a $5 that you spent somewhere. Also, registering your products supports communism =D |
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Lenina Goomba Level: 10  Posts: 12/32 EXP: 3266 For next: 1148 Since: 12-11-04 From: St. Andrews, Scotland/ Salem, CT USA Since last post: 289 days Last activity: 155 days |
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| There was an episode of Law & Order that used something along these lines. They were able to trace a piece of printed paper back to the manufacturer, which only provided the paper to schools. Then at the school, the detectives were are to trace it to a certain computer. It was sort of freaky. I don | |||
MetalMan88 Ninji Level: 23  Posts: 11/232 EXP: 63815 For next: 3908 Since: 12-11-04 From: 1970s Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| Welll... I have two Laserjet IIP printers... heh heh heh... And a CanonS300, but all we print are pictures and school documents, with the school documents being put in folders tat trace back to us anyway. So I'm not worried. |
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