OT: Odd system folders!

[Will]

Atrocities said:
Last year, an article in PC World magazine pointed out that printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered across the page, viewable only with a special kind of flashlight. The article quoted a senior researcher at Xerox Corp. as saying the dots contain information useful to law-enforcement authorities, a secret digital "license tag" for tracking down criminals.

Edited emphasis. Yellow dots, but on laser printers only. And color laser printers only, to boot. Not only that, but "many" color laser printers, not "all" color laser printers. And the "many" most likely corresponds to only the highest quality laser printers, and that's why the Secret Service requires the yellow dots. Because, the Secret Service was not created to protect the President of the US... it was created as a branch of the Treasury Department to track down counterfeiters of US currency. The yellow dots allow detected counterfeits to be traced to a printer manufacturer and serial number, allowing the SS to track down criminals, or more specifically, counterfeiters, via information on the location a specific printer was sold. But, this of course is blown out of proportion, and equated with "teh government is spying on all your printers," which is simply untrue. Frankly, they have better things to do.