TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 年前What's something that feels illegal to know?message-squaremessage-square285linkfedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down18
arrow-up1274arrow-down1message-squareWhat's something that feels illegal to know?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 年前message-square285linkfedilink
minus-squareTheGreenGolem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up68·2 年前The invisible tracking dots in almost every printer. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 年前Similarly, there’s patterns of circles on banknotes that prevent you scanning them or loading them into Photoshop.
minus-squarebfg9k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 年前I actually tried this and our office scanner refused to scan it, threw an error each time. Worked fine with a regular document.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 年前Yeah, it’s mostly this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation Although I think there are a couple of other methods in play.
minus-squaremysoulishome@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 年前Person named Reality Leigh Winner…somehow that sounds exactly like the name of someone who would leak documents
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·edit-22 年前I mean… She’s the reason we know the Russians wanted Trump to win and took actions to compromise our physical election infrastructure. She leaked that while the Trump administration was actively trying to bury it.
minus-squarevivadanang@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 年前yeah there’s irony to the name and coinciding events… almost like someone named Trump hoarding national secrets after an attempted coup.
The invisible tracking dots in almost every printer.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Similarly, there’s patterns of circles on banknotes that prevent you scanning them or loading them into Photoshop.
I actually tried this and our office scanner refused to scan it, threw an error each time. Worked fine with a regular document.
Yeah, it’s mostly this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Although I think there are a couple of other methods in play.
Person named Reality Leigh Winner…somehow that sounds exactly like the name of someone who would leak documents
I mean… She’s the reason we know the Russians wanted Trump to win and took actions to compromise our physical election infrastructure. She leaked that while the Trump administration was actively trying to bury it.
yeah there’s irony to the name and coinciding events… almost like someone named Trump hoarding national secrets after an attempted coup.