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.

                    Jim Bell