Global Security Watch > Decoding DocuColor tracking dot
[ Techdigger] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a guide on how you can reveal whether your printer is secretly setting you up. It reveals that the DocuColor series prints a rectangular grid of 15 by 8 miniscule yellow dots on every color page.
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SecuriTeam Blogs: The EFF has created a web application that can be used to decode the dots which hide the time, date, and serial number of the printer. (via Cosmos)
[Webcoder.info] webcoder.info: EFF and its partners began its project to break the printer code with the Xerox DocuColor line. Researchers Schoen, EFF intern Robert Lee, and volunteers Patrick Murphy and Joel Alwen compared dots from test pages sent in by EFF supporters, noting similarities and differences in their arrangement, and then found a simple way to read the pattern.
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