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Imperator Fyron said:
Atrocities said:
Your printer prints all information about itself, and your PC on each and every peace of paper printed.
bull. Your printer can print a diagnostic sheet with some info about itself, sure. But that is purely for your use in trouble-shooting. No consumer-level printer can possibly print secret information on every page, either with some sort of "invisible ink" or at tiny, tiny resolution such that you can't see it with the unaided eye. That would require massive engineering costs, making them impossible to sell in the low hundreds of dollars range.
Your CD burner burns its serial number, and your PC information onto each disk you create.
I'd have to call bull again. MAYBE a drive serial number, but even that is unlikely. If drive manufacturers were to attempt this (or be forced by the government), there would be privacy related lawsuits about it. The ALCU, for one, would be all over it.
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These are not "bull" as you so gently put it.
In fact they are quite real. Your printer does indeed print information about itself and your PC on each page in the form of little yellow dots
Here Is A Link. The Secret Service use special methods to view and read the dots. This was shown on a Discovery Channel show. Sorry don't recall the name of the program but I believe it was Secrets of the Secret Service or something like that. In fact all of the things I mentioned were shown on that show. Your CD burner does encode information about itself and your PC on EVERY DISK you burn.
As to the information contained in digital images, like you said this is nothing new. However, many people do not know about it. For Digital Video, every frame of video shot, 30 fps, it is time coded, and the image you see is actually smaller than what is really recorded. Most people don't know about this as it is really unimportant. However, if your on a tight shot of some person reading a statement, and all you see is their face, the FBI will see another 6 to 12 inches around them, and that could reveal a gun to the person head, or someone or something in the back ground that they can use. Also the camera records its serial number along with the time coding on to each frame of video.
Most people didn't believe that they could be tracked by using their cell phones five years ago. I recall someone telling me that I was full of "bull" back then.