On every document you print, there are these microscopic yellow dots. These dots reveal date, time, the printer that was used, and eventually the person who purchased the printer. Now why would this bother you? PRIVACY! The secret service is invading our privacy and there is nothing we can do about it. This technology is called DocuColor. There is a more thorough explanation and pics of the evil dots here:
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
2006-09-13 14:43:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
Yes this is a known thing. It's a fed encouraged thing. You will find this technology on most every copier or printer in some form which has a higher resolution and the ability to reproduce currency to a close quality of the original. The latest digital scanners, copiers, & all-in-one machines can also sense the digital signature of US money and will ERROR when you try to scan it. Basically when you scan money it converts to a digital signature (a long string of computer I & O's) and those signatures closely associated to US money fronts and backs have been protected in the machines electronics.
That's a good thing though. Keeps the counterfeiters from making bogus money as easily.
Oh by the way, photocopying and digitally reproducing money without altering it to not be a likeness is illegal. Want to copy money? Make sure you at least enlarge or reduce the size enough to make it extremely noticable as not bonifide.
2006-09-13 20:00:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
YUP there are dots, but the link is for only one printer - the xerox
I have lots of printers and even bubble jets, like the HP 9X0's and
12xx"s have yellow dots that appear. I do not know what other ones
have this " feature", bu it is quite real.... I would think that OLD printers do not have this, and black and white printers would show clearly any added markings, so the technology has a long way to go.. If you are worried, use a really old, parallel printer, and you would be safe ! Better yet, use an OLD black and white printer, and you would have it made.. !
All ( as in ALL ) your in and out files on yahoo are saved forever on the server now, as are most servers, since legislation in U.S. and Canada has gone thru forcing ISP providers to keep all records.... There is an automated telephone monitoring program running in N.A. that screens millions of conversations for key words ( bomb, explosive, etc. ) 24 hours a day... try this to increase your status :
I lent my sister my plastic storage bin when she was moving.
In only a minute, I turned around and I saw my bin laden with
junk from the bedroom.
You will be immediately flagged, and looked at very carefully as a terrorist !
have fun..
2006-09-13 22:06:46 · answer #2 · answered by robertta g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its really a cool thing, but how we didn't heard about it tell now, cause before one year all our company secrets were printed, send to another company, we made an investigation to know from which printer, or who or time, and we failed, now all our RnD secrets are with the other company cause of one of our employees,!! it may be a new techonogloy that still under applications and testing.
2006-09-17 05:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by Wish Master 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you pay cash for a printer at a big chain there is no record of who bought it. Are you planning on writing incriminating letters?
2006-09-13 21:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by Wile E. Chipotle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are worried about a printer? a man with the government told me a while back about my tv. he asked me if I have a tv in the bed room. I said yes, he told me when my wife go to bed to cover the tv the lil eye for the remote on the tv is how they watch you. then he showed me the lil box on the telephone pole across the street where they have our telephones tapped. printers big deal.
2006-09-13 21:48:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do you print pages that you worry about this? If so then I for one am glad this technology is being used.
2006-09-13 21:49:12 · answer #6 · answered by Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you're printing money or ransom notes, I don't see what you are worried about. I suppose there are wireless cameras in my watch too?
2006-09-13 21:53:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and the little scanner your meter reader uses from inside his truck....watch that little booger!
2006-09-13 22:14:10 · answer #8 · answered by mickeyg1958 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If my printer is "watching me", it must be pretty bored by now.
2006-09-13 21:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I run a paperless office, officer
2006-09-13 21:51:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋