On 5/12/19 12:44 AM, jim bell wrote:
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, 9:10:31 PM PDT, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 5/11/19 11:57 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
If this took place before The Intercept burned Reality Winner, shame on The Intercept. If it took place after, shame on the leaker.
Postscript: The Reality Winner incident did come /after/ the publication of docs apparently submitted to The Intercept by Daniel Hale. So, he had no obvious way to know where NOT to send TS dox.
Years ago, I recall reading that early on in the history of inkjet printers, even 1990, 'features' were built in the printers to detect if the printed document "looked like" a US dollar, small yellow dots, precisely placed to encode source data, were written over the face of the document. It seemed to me that removing the yellow cartridge, plus a thorough exhausting of the residual material, would improve the security.
Based on what I heard, it wasn't clear that such security dots, or other features, were used for non-currency-counterfeiting applications. It sounds from these recent incidents as if inkjet printers are putting identifiable information on virtually any printouts.
Wikipedia has a good article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography