Erik Uden 🚩
lumpen 🍉 III@ErikUden why my printers are old as fuck
Baron Vonskinnback
Jesse 
@ErikUden well they changed the way they do it now, it's even sneakier than before apparently
kb@donkeyblam @ErikUden we have no idea how they do it now, the yellow dots thing was discovered by accident
Hippie
lampsofgold@ErikUden motherfuck the intercept forever for burning reality winner
Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands ☣@ErikUden When I worked in a print shop, running a collection of Xerox printers, one of my services techs was in troubleshooting an issue and showed me the yellow dots on a print that was only half fused as they're much easier to see when it's loose toner before they're fused. I'd known about this before that, so it was mostly just a curiosity at that point.
Jacket@ErikUden That was part of a CTF once.
@ErikUden Some code meanings from some companies are not even known by the general public. If you want to see it you need a blue light.
fops Now On Merping Synth Download@ErikUden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code we love hidden tracking
MarkAssPandi@ErikUden ok wasn't paper supposed to be like secure ffs
Led By Gilded Fools
Deathmaster Megalodon Ultrakill 9000@ErikUden what the fuck is this horrid edit you have brought upon me
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡Silk screening your own posters avoids the tracking mechanism.
https://www.amazon.com/Speedball-Advanced-All-Screen-Printing/dp/B007W6SAD4
Joe ❌👑@ErikUden Black-only laser printers don't do this, and they are much cheaper to operate, so best to use them when color isn't needed.
Kevin Karhan 
@not2b @ErikUden nope.
Some B&W do that too!
It depends on the model and manufacturer, but unless you lab-check them for #MicroDots chances are you don't know for shure...
In fact, @theintercept being run by absolute idiots is why #RealityWinner got caught!
@kkarhan @ErikUden @theintercept If a printer is physically incapable of making a yellow dot, there are no yellow dots. Reality Winner was caught because she used a color printer, even though she printed in B&W, but in her case they didn't even need the dots, the NSA system logged all print jobs so they still could have found her.
niikonik@ErikUden damn cant even trust paper
Beeks@ErikUden I was a copier repairman many moons ago and IIRC it was originally created to catch potential counterfeiters, though as of at least 15 years ago new copiers automatically detected money and printed a blank page if you tried (though you could get around that if you knew certain codes.)
Gruik
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