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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday June 11 2017, @03:07AM (2 children)
I've grown to loathe printers, particularly ink jets. Ink that is pricier than gold, a propensity to clog and jam, and most of all, all the limitations of paper: low storage density, not searchable with machinery. And now this treacherous steganography. What's with the love affair so many people still have with the printed word? Quit using them already!
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday June 11 2017, @04:19AM
The printed word is hand in power outages.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:12AM
You're talking about inkjets. Get a laser printer instead; the toner is cheap, and they don't have clogging problems since there's no inkjet nozzles.