Be careful what you print on a color laser printer

[Wolverine@MSU]

Big Brother may be watching you:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/g ... ments.html

[Hawk]

I saw something about that on an episode of CSI but wasn't sure if it was real or not.
I reckon it is.

[Penn Minuteman]

Crean describes the device as a chip located "way in the machine, right near the laser" that embeds the dots when the document "is about 20 billionths of a second" from printing.

"Standard mischief won't get you around it," Crean adds.

Hmmmm I wonder if Crean worked for Diebold too and swore that their electronic voting machines couldn't be hacked.

Of course that statement was true till 3 students at M.I.T. got hold of a Diebold machine and hacked it in less than 30 minutes. Then once they figured it out. They had it down to 3 minutes.

Bet someone out there can hack it if they wanted to.

[Gwizz]

Gee, does that mean we can't print American dollars like the Far East does. How are we going to pay our taxes and the national debt.

[ostlandr]

I heard that years ago. When affordable high-quality color printers came out, Xerox agreed to bury a tiny unique code in the image somewhere, to identify the machine that made the copies. If you had the right paper you could make scary good fake bills cheaply and easily. My wife was in printing at the time, and worked with these machines, so she got her info right from the Xerox rep.

Concerned? Then follow the advice of the old Chicago 'outfit' and "never put nuttin' in writin' ".