Vengeance
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« on: Dec 23, 2004, 03:48 PM » |
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Q: Is it true that the government tracks printouts from color printers?
A: Because color laser printers do such a good job of reproducing original documents, they're a favorite among counterfeiters. Some color laser printers encode a serial number and manufacturing code on each printed document using millimeter-sized yellow dots. The dots are invisible to the naked eye but show up under a blue LED flashlight. The government says it tracks printers only in criminal cases.
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Catfish
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 23, 2004, 03:51 PM » |
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lol, leet... I need to find out a bit more on this and try some stuff... and then find where in the printer such fun things can be changed  |
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 23, 2004, 03:51 PM » |
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Heh, busted. I guess that's one way to try and get out of having to compare the marks made on sheets of paper by the printer, like they always do in CSI.
Couldn't a death threat writer just find those dots and remove them from the page, though?
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elmono311
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 23, 2004, 04:02 PM » |
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Yeah, why haven't they showed this off on CSI yet?
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Supermercado
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 23, 2004, 04:03 PM » |
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It might be a brand-new technology. Maybe CBS didn't know it existed yet to put it in episodes. I imagine we'll see it before too long.
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"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
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elmono311
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 23, 2004, 04:13 PM » |
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The other thing I remember them doing with printers was only because there was a watermark on the actual piece of paper and the printer's ink cartridge wasn't aligned right so there was a noticeable faded spot along the side.
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Supermercado
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 23, 2004, 04:16 PM » |
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They make the criminals on CSI do the dumbest things. After watching CSI, it seems like a person could commit the perfect crime. Wear gloves, don't leave the murder weapon behind and don't dispose of it 10 feet from the crime scene, don't print your death threats/ransom notes on your printer, your wife's printer, or your secretary's printer, burn evidence, etc.
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"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
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elmono311
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 23, 2004, 04:17 PM » |
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Yeah, I've told Vengeance that CSI basically tells you how to commit a crime by telling you what not to do
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She always did love to dance.
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