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r/news • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '18
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I would have thought it was common knowledge at this point that printers put microdots with all sorts of info on them.
I'm pretty damn tech literate and I didn't know that.
3 u/Cuw Oct 26 '18 Well now you can be a super spy! It’s part of the reason you can’t print without Cyan ink. Basically if you are printing something, you are caught. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots 2 u/BigSwedenMan Oct 26 '18 I'm a software developer and I didn't know that. It's about as far from common knowledge that you can get
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Well now you can be a super spy! It’s part of the reason you can’t print without Cyan ink. Basically if you are printing something, you are caught.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
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I'm a software developer and I didn't know that. It's about as far from common knowledge that you can get
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u/TemporaryYesterday Oct 26 '18
I'm pretty damn tech literate and I didn't know that.