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  • Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You

    10/18/2005 6:54:07 AM PDT · by antiRepublicrat · 132 replies · 3,428+ views
    EFF ^ | 17 Oct 05 | Seth Schoen
    Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the 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...