SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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.
related stories:
Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document
North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker
Doctor Who Season 8 Scripts Leak Online
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 26 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:12AM (1 child)
What about adding more dots? Patterns all over the place? Or is firmware smart enough to detect fake data and avoid that so only the ID dots are printed?
Also, yellow paper? Maybe tint everything with quick spray pass. Or colored slide and photocopy the combination.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:49AM
It can be counter acted by statistical trends. Yellow paper etc will still carry a small but detectable difference, and thus being compromised. It has to not be printed at all to begin with.