Secret tiny dots link print-outs to users
posted by:Mohamed Layouni // 01:05 PM // October 26, 2005 // TechLife
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
The full Article can be found here.
For information on how to see and decode the dots, see this guide.
