Wednesday, October 19, 2005

You can copy but you can’t hide

A secret code embedded in many color laser jet printers allows the US government and any other organization capable of reading the cipher to identify when the copies were made and on which particular machine, according to research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Among the copiers found to include the secret yellow dots are ones made by Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Konica/Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, Ricoh, Tektronix/Toshiba and Xerox. The dots are yellow, less than one millimeter in diameter, and are typically repeated over each page of a document. The pattern can be seen using a blue light, a magnifying glass, or a microscope.
Do you think they hide something in our coffee too?

4 Comments:

Blogger Saur♥Kraut said...

OMG. This is incredible. Talk about Big Brother!!! This is fascinating. Your blog is incredible, Ajay, you know that? You post the coolest stuff. I learn so much in here. How's the job search going?

October 19, 2005 11:11 AM  
Blogger Ajay Shroff said...

Thanks Saur and I found a job :) I will be working for a company called Innovatia here in Saint John, Canada. (www.innovatia.net)

October 19, 2005 11:13 AM  
Blogger Saur♥Kraut said...

Cool! What'll you be doing?

October 20, 2005 10:01 PM  
Blogger sarahintampa said...

I heard about that a while back...it is just freaky! Big Brother!!

October 20, 2005 10:12 PM  

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