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[Privacy.org - The Source for News, Information, and Action] Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track People: Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a widely used line of Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of sorts that contains the serial number of the printer as well as the date and time a document was printed. The U.S. Secret Service acknowledged yesterday that the markings, which are not visible to the human eye, are there.

[SearchViews - Dispatches and Discussions on the Search Engine Industry. Brought to you by Reprise Media] EFF Says Your Printer Could be A Snitch: A new report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that the privacy group has cracked the code that the Secret Service uses to identify color printers. This code, consisting of a series of nearly invisible tiny yellow dots, is used to identify not only the printer, but also the date and time a document was churned out.

 [Team-swap.com] Swap Blog » Printer privacy and tracking dots: by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation - 21st century privacy group) of .To me “invisible dots” on color laser print outs are like fingerprints, .

[Irregulartimes.com] Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print»Blog Archive » New Frontier ...: These stories don’t have any impact on the lives of anyone but the few people who personally know the missing persons. The details of legislation going through Congress do matter, because they impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

[Blog.datamation.com] Datamation IT News Blog: Our friendly feds apparently told the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which recently cracked the code, that the program was developed to help prevent counterfeiting.

[Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Government Dots Printer Pages With Secret Yellow Dots: The issue was first touched upon by the PC World magazine in an article, Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents, published in November 2004. The article reported that the "printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered across the page, viewable only with a special kind of flashlight".

[Blogs.smh.com.au] The Sydney Morning Herald Technology: News Blog - Printer paranoia ...: A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which broke the code, says the dot code was embedded in a deal struck between the US Secret Service and selected printer manufacturers some years back.

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