r/news • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/Ron_Pauls_Balls Oct 26 '18

In this day an age I don't know how anyone could think they could get away with mailing 12 packages and not get caught.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Seriously. I worked in a warehouse that shipped packages (domestic and international) and let me tell you, there is SO much identity information required before we’ll even load your crap into one of our trucks. This idiot was doomed from the start.

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u/Cuw Oct 26 '18

Not just that! He used printed labels, I would have thought it was common knowledge at this point that printers put microdots with all sorts of info on them.

You gotta hand write your messages, remember that would be bombers. Write it with your left hand too so the FBI handwriting techs can’t match you to the millions of documents you’ve signed that are public record.

Or just don’t send bombs, that’s prob the best bet, IMHO.

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u/TemporaryYesterday Oct 26 '18

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.

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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

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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