Sorry, Adrian, we stopped listening to you years ago.
You should change your name to Cassandra.
Don't buy the yellow toner!
To quote somebody from the post ONE YEAR AGO
"This has been out for a while. Note the Washington Post article from 2005"
Yeah, this has been known for a long time. From 2004:
Damn. Now I'll have to find another way to print my counterfeit bills.
Another good reason not to turn in manufacturer registration slips or register software, I suppose.
Speaking of counterfeiting, ever tried to open a document in Photoshop with even a small portion of any US paper currency displayed? Photoshop freaks out and won't let you print.
And now you know.
And of course, ink jet printers are completely unaffected by this, correct?
This is why is still use cut-out letters from magazines to send anonymous threatening letters.
you may have aid it one year ago, but i heard it from schneier and the eff and several other places 3 years ago.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/secret_forensic.html
What Napoleon said. They couldn't identify you if you didn't register the printer/software and paid cash for the printer (and even that might not be necessary).
Which will usher in a world with printouts lacking red, orange, yellow, or green, as civil libertarians and privacy advocates cover their empty yellow ink cartridges with duct tape.
And usher in a niche market for fake yellow cartridges that fake a "full" status to the printer.
Shit, I shoulda kept that one to myself.
@8, I just opened a pretty high-res picture of a $1 bill from Wikimedia Commons in Photoshop CS2 and printed it, and it worked fine.
Only a sucker would buy a color printer anyway. The cost of the inks, OY!
@14 It seems to be primarily $20 bills that photoshop has a problem with. See: http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/how_to_use_scanned_money_in_adobe_photoshop.html
Are you afraid your ransom note or fake $20s will be traced back to you?
Typewriters have had that serial number printing system forever. I don't see how this is anything really important or new.
Your printer's been spying on you since the late 80s, actually.
All chipsets in printers are designed so they can be taken over by the NSA.
We used them to disrupt networks and gather intel during the first Gulf War, FWIW.
For most people, most of the time, this sort of thing doesn't matter. But if you ever find yourself in a situation where it does matter, this problem is fairly easy to work around:
1. Print letter.
2. Go to public library, or someplace else with a copy machine you can use without being observed.
3. Place sheet of clear plastic wrap over letter and make one copy on library copier.
4. Make copy of copy, using plastic wrap filter. Repeat until 4th generation.
5. Handle final copy with gloves.
That's pretty much Espionage 101, up there with, "Only write on single sheets of paper, on hard surfaces."
All chipsets in printers are designed so they can be taken over by the NSA.We used them to disrupt networks and gather intel during the first Gulf War, FWIW.
@21 - you mean you didn't know that? It's a requirement, actually.
Oh Will, you credulous hack. Your myth is just a variation on this famous April Fool's joke:
http://www.vmyths.com/hmul/7/3/
What's that old saying? It's not what you don't know that that's scary, it's what you think you know that just ain't so that is truly frightening.
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