Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher

First time accepted submitter sal_park writes "According to a report from German computer scientist D. Kriesel, some Xerox WorkCentre copiers and scanners may alter numbers that appear in scanned documents. Having analyzed the output of two such devices, the Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556, Kriesel found that "patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way": in particular, some numbers appearing in a document may be replaced by other numbers when it is scanned."

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Slashdot affected as well

[Anonymous Coward]

Kriesel found that âoepatches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous wayâ

Slashdot users are advised not to use Xerox copiers for submissions.

Re:Slashdot affected as well

[intermodal]

Especially with such an international audience.

Re:Slashdot affected as well

[nmb3000]

"Smart parentheses" add no value to a document, either. They're just fluff. We should start using | for both opening and closing parentheses, no?

Wow, you've somehow managed to make Lisp even more difficult to read

|defun proj |y x||+|*|flet ||ip |x y||sum |* x y|||||* |/|ip x y||ip x x||x||x|y||

Congratulations are in order, but I'm sure people will still keep using it :|

Re:Mission Impossible 4?

[Entropius]

That's Xenu, not Xerox.

Re:oh man, what a mess

[Hatta]

That's what she said.

Re:Anti-counterfeiting

[Anubis IV]

You came up with the exact same conclusion as the author of the article you just read:

Hey now, there's no need to accuse me of reading the article just because I looked at the pictures.