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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« on: June 06, 2017, 03:10:07 pm »
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The truth is all of the above, but with a cherry on top: the printouts contained invisible dot patterns added by the printer to identify the worker who sent the print job. All surviving photocopying, scanning and PDF compression to be published, plain as day, on the world-wide web.
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Re: Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2017, 03:18:48 pm »
Yup.  Most people don't realize that just about all our color laser printers, copiers, etc., are encoded like that, with a yellow dot pattern.

This might be helpful:
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
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Re: Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2017, 03:23:05 pm »
A site designed to help leakers avoid detection. Greeeat.
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Re: Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2017, 02:28:31 am »
They should stop telling everyone how they solved the crime.
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Re: Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2017, 02:32:08 am »
Do the dots show if you copy/print in B&W?
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Re: Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2017, 02:35:17 am »
Supposedly only color printers
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