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Xerox Exploits Printer Flaws To Make Pseudo-Holograms
Red Wolf writes "A chance discovery by Xerox lets printers superimpose glossy images on regular printouts, creating the possibility for document authentication along the lines of holograms on credit cards. The new technology, called Glossmark, can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."
Who wants to let me borrow his credit cards?
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Isn't running an already-printed page through a printer a violation of the DMCA or something?
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And then Xerox gives up the technology, somebody else picks it up and makes a bundle.
Let's see... Mouse, GUI, Ethernet, Palm Graffiti, WYSIWYG word processors, and more
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I hope this gets used on currency too. It's already so easy to counterfit U.S. money, using Xerox printers. This would be an easily replicated security feature that would draw attention away from the flaws in the printing process.
So the ink is a little smudged, but look at the glossy square with JFK in it. It has to be real!
I suppose the next step would be ATMs that print money???
How can this be legal under the DMCA? I mean they are obviously circumventing their own protection scheme. Has anyone notified SCO, the MPAA, the RIAA, or better yet the FBI?!?!
Yet another sad commentary on the rampant cover-ups of the true nature of the pseudo-hologram industry.
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Tickets to the Superbowl: $0
Credit card to charge up $9000 in stereo equipment: $0
Same credit card, Quad-CPU, 16 gigs RAM, 1 terrabyte machine with all the latest blings: $0
A lawyer that can use the "it was a bug in the printer" defense to successfully get you off: Priceless.
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What, like the ridiculously high licensing fees on your mouse, your GUI, your network... ;-)
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No wonder Xerox is struggling. While other companies are busy developing new products Xerox techs are destracted by shiny objects.
"Oooh, shiny!!!"
"Did you read the article?"
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Give me a few months and I could make a damn good couterfeit $20 bill if I only had the paper and the press that makes them.
Yes, and I could build a nuclear bomb if I only had some nuclear... and a bomb.
What are you saying, Xerox didn't invent those, App^h^h^h MS did! Just ask their PR department, they'll set you straight, and send you a free copy of 'MS History v3.0 - This time we got it right'.
-Charlie
(Yes, once again, sarcasm, I do know my history).
There's decent evidence that the US has done exactly this in recent conflicts, at least in Iraq I and Bosnia. Google around for it if you're interested.
Because if it's on the internet, it must be true!!
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"Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on efforts to encrypt or otherwise protect content against people who might make perfect digital copies with a computer or other device. But little of this technology has been able to do anything about decidedly easy methods of reproduction such as photocopying a hard copy of a document, or taping a song as it comes out of a stereo's speakers. "
.. "Protect content against people"?
Criminal masterminds, beware! In the future, diabolical acoustic tricks inside the loudspeaker will make every attempted microphone-against-speaker based tape-recording of the song come out as an extra evil rendition of "Don't Copy that Floppy".
And what's this
Please, people, someone think of the content!
A lawyer that can use the "it was a bug in the printer" defense to successfully get you off: Priceless.
Paying that lawyer with the same card: even more priceless.