New Technique Could Trace Documents By Printer

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/14/1742224 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-10-14 18:28:00 from the better-than-a-notch-in-the-e dept. An anonymous reader submits "From [1]this article at Purdue News, 'Researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that will enable authorities to trace documents to specific printers, a technique law-enforcement agencies could use to investigate counterfeiting, forgeries and homeland security matters.' The neat thing is that they are exploiting the characteristics of the print process itself to identify the printer." One of the folks e-mailed me to say that [2]the HP LaserJet 9000dn was one of the big ones tested with. IFRAME: [3]pos6 References 1. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2004/041011.Delp.forensics.html 2. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/page.pl?tid=10541 3. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2936&alloc_id=10685&site_id=1&request_id=2825914 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
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