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The hidden yellow dots some color laser printers add to their pages

Some color laser printers secretly add faint yellow dots to their pages, visible under blue light.

On Xerox DocuColor printers, the dots repeat on every page and record the printer's ID number and the date and time of printing. Printer makers reportedly added such codes to help governments trace fake money.

In 2017, security researchers decoded the dots on a published scan of a leaked secret document, revealing which printer made it, and when.

Source: w2.eff.org

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