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Title: Yellow Dots of Mystery: Your Printer Spying on You. Post by: Mark on January 11, 2011, 09:32:36 am Yellow Dots of Mystery: Your Printer Spying on You.
Imagine that every time you print a document, it automatically includes a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and, potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from a spy movie, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izMGMsIZK4U Unfortunately, the scenario isn't fictional. Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied. In this instructable, we'll describe three different ways to see the tracking dots your printer produces: with a blue light, with a microscope, or with a scanner. If you don't have the necessary equipment for a particular step, go on to the next one. For further information, or to share your findings, please visit us at http://www.eff.org/issues/printers. Want to help? Download test sheets at http://www.eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-code-technology-color-laser-printers#help (http://www.instructables.com/image/FG0JVWCFM2KBQB5/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your-Printer-Spying-on-.jpg) step 1Print a page with text/graphics Print out a page from a color laser printer. The page should use color and have some text or graphics on it. You can find a list of printers that we know print tracking dots at our website . As you're looking for the dots, keep in mind that they're printed in a regularly repeating pattern across the entire page (not just in the corner of the page), and will be intermixed with other printed data. (http://www.instructables.com/image/FBWE3UBFM7WGUCH/Print-a-page-with-textgraphics.jpg) MORE http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your-Printer-Spying-on-/ [/quote] Title: Re: Yellow Dots of Mystery: Your Printer Spying on You. Post by: Linkzy on January 11, 2011, 04:41:34 pm Interesting instructable ... it is only one of many 'technologies' that are being utilized to track ppl and build databases and there is much data-mining going on ... its astounding ... the agenda is underway ...
Did ya happen to see this?? http://sureynot.com/v/1409/wvb-01-09-11.html (http://sureynot.com/v/1409/wvb-01-09-11.html) It confirms quite a bit and it covers much more than just teeny yellow dots and stuff .. it's really happening .. time to wake up and educate yourself... We really need to read our Bibles and don't waste any more time ... we don't have much left..so God help us all to redeem it carefully Blessings Title: Re: Yellow Dots of Mystery: Your Printer Spying on You. Post by: theBIBLICALdude on January 17, 2011, 01:10:28 am So the printer that my mother in law got me for Christmas 2 years ago will let people know that my name is Josh? Simple solution all you conspiracy types, shred the paper and throw it out in separate bags on separate days. Funny thing about this is that the majority of things printed comes from computers... and I can only imagine what evil SKYNET like computers are in the secret goverment testing facilities out there. Here is a fact: If the goverment wants to know what you are doing, they will know it with or without the yellow dots on the paper. |