Following Winner's arrest and subsequent charging, the security researcher has submitted a pull request to the PDF Redact Tools, a project for securely redacting and stripping metadata from documents before publishing.
[...] "The black and white conversion will convert colors like the faded yellow dots to white," Szathmari told Bleeping Computer in an interview.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @11:17PM (1 child)
There are 4 Samsung units listed at the EFF link from frojack.
All of those are no-dots.
There are 14 OkiDATA units listed.
All of those are no-dots.
Xerox/Tektronix/Fuji is a mixed bag.
Another EFF page that has a decoder at the bottom.
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide [eff.org]
There's some organized resistance in the EU. [seeingyellow.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:29AM
And none of those is getting any business from the CIA/NSA etc.
This isn't something the manufacturers are foisting on an unsuspecting public.
It is something agencies and businesses actively seek out to protect the information they are charged with protecting.
They could make the technology far more effective by just hanging up a sign and saying every document will be dot encoded. Combine that with a 27 cent finger print reader on the "Copy" button, and just about all your document copy thefts disappear.
Is this wrong?
Should just ANY clerk working for the IRS be free to photocopy or print out your tax returns and post them all on line? Your medical records? Your bank account?
I suggest this is only a story because a very silly woman stole something from a big bad three letter agency. (Note: It was RUSSIAN intelligence she copied - not your email).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.