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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:12AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:12AM (#523696)

    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.

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