Re: Xerox printer codes track documents

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:31:09PM +1000 Russell Shaw said:
> Sam Varghese wrote:
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> >On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:30:18PM +1000 Russell Shaw said:
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> >>http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/18/1129401224436.html
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> >One letter writer had something to say about it:
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> >http://www.theage.com.au/technology/resources/yoursay/
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> >Sam
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> Having unique marks to match to the printer is all well and good,
> but with proprietory binaries from M$ and Adobe, they could also
> encode your email address, credit card numbers, or anything else
> that is ever entered via the software or stored in the windoze
> registry.

Here's another interesting one:

http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358

Blizzard says that all they are doing is checking to see if people are
using pirated copies of WoW; but at the same time they could be well
trapping plenty of other data as well.

Sam
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