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New Technique Could Trace Documents By Printer
An anonymous reader submits "From this article at Purdue News, 'Researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that will enable authorities to trace documents to specific printers, a technique law-enforcement agencies could use to investigate counterfeiting, forgeries and homeland security matters.' The neat thing is that they are exploiting the characteristics of the print process itself to identify the printer." <update> One of the folks e-mailed me to say that the HP LaserJet 9000dn was one of the big ones tested with.
Because this has no free speech implications at all.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
Cool. Too bad Dan Rather didn't have this tool in his investigative arsenal before he set out to destroy the president with forged documents.
1) Microsoft will own or buy the patent on the technology that embeds identifying marks in the printout of each printer, a unique PID which the WinXX OS will generate for each printer based on a hardware sig the printer gives to the OS. Printers not recieving a 'valid' PID from the OS will not print. Just like GPG keys.
2) The technology, since it is in the kernel of the WinOS, will not be revealed, so Linux distros will not be able to use those printers,
3) Microsoft will lobby for laws to make that makes illegal to sell a printer without the PID technology in the US. They will lobby EU countries to get the same kinds of laws. Since Microsoft doesn't care about US National Security, as evidenced by the fact that they gave WinXX source to China and other anti-US nations, the real reason for this 'security' concern is to impeed the growth of Linux.
Will they be successful? Do politicians love money?
oh, it's funny because it's true....
think about it--nobody's disputed the actual *content* of the memo, they just dispute the authenticity of the copy of the memo that CBS has. I mean, what better way to get people to disbelieve true information than to forge a document with that information, pass it to the press, then "out" the document as fake?
The information is still true, but it's now so tainted, no other network will cover the story.
(It makes complete sense, too, since Rove has a history of forging documents, and he once bugged his own office to cast an opponent in a bad light.)
I realize you meant this to be funny, but maybe if the Democrats didn't take their own propaganda so seriously, they wouldn't have instinctively believed that memo to be genuine. To put it another way, no matter how many times UFOs have been debunked, some people continue to fall for the flimsiest manufactured UFO "evidence".
p.s. I'm still waiting for an apology from all those people who called me a conspiratorial nutbag for doubting the authenticity of those memos in the beginning. Of course I'll never get one, because it's against the Democrat code of honor to admit a mistake. "It's not our fault! Karl Rove did it!"
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
You fucking conservatives and your bullshit. You have been caught RED FUCKING HANDED making up shit and now you expect us to beleive anything else your lying, bullshitting mouths might say? And people wonder why conservatives are considered terrorist supporters and lower than the Nazis.
See? Two can play that game, you partisan fuck.
Protect America. Bush Cheney 2004.