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"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks

posted by on Saturday June 10 2017, @05:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-with-a-cloth-or-something dept.

butthurt writes:

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.

—Bleeping Computer

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:52AM (#523671)

    Oh, great... why not just bring your own printer then? New printer or hacking into printer... sure noone will notice while checking physically the secured area.

    If you can pick any printer, say for personal use at your own home or business, just buy one that doesn't have the dot system.

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