Your Rights Online: Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : Hidden Codes in Printers
Cracked 
 
Posted by CmdrTaco <http://cmdrtaco.net/>  on Tuesday October 18, @08:50AM
from the big-brother-pwnz-you dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=158> Privacy 
r84x <mailto:r84x@yREDHATahoo.comminusdistro>  writes "A research team led
by the Electronic  <http://www.eff.org/> Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently
broke the  <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063> 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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