Yellow Dot Code

**lemon boy** · 10-19-2005, 08:26 AM

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG7PFAM3F1.DTL

Scary shit.

**edg** · 10-19-2005, 08:30 AM

Why would you worry unless you're counterfeiting? They need the original printer to be able to match the two up, and they're only gonna get that under warrant...

edg

**lemon boy** · 10-19-2005, 08:35 AM

No the yellow dot tells them the serial number of the printer and the date of printing.

Sorry but the why worry if you're not breaking the law argument holds no water for me. I simply wish for the govt to stay out of my bidness unless it has a bona fide reason to suspect I've run afoul the law.

**Twoplanker** · 10-19-2005, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

No the yellow dot tells them the serial number of the printer and the date of printing.

Sorry but the why worry if you're not breaking the law argument holds no water for me. I simply wish for the govt to stay out of my bidness unless it has a bona fide reason to suspect I've run afoul the law.

You're regretting that letter you sent to Bush, aren't you?

**lemon boy** · 10-19-2005, 08:49 AM

No, I sent it via my blind drop and used three color phased paper that disrupts the yellow dot images.

**Twoplanker** · 10-19-2005, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

No, I sent it via my blind drop and used three color phased paper that disrupts the yellow dot images.

You're not accounting for the microchip that was planted in your skull last time you visited the dentist.

Homeland Security teaming up with the dental dark arts = sign of the apocolypse.

**DJSapp** · 10-19-2005, 08:54 AM

Note to self: keep old dot-matrix printer working forever.

**SkiingBear** · 10-19-2005, 08:56 AM

So have you actually registered the serial number of your printer? I know that I haven't, and I've purchased something like 4 color printers in the last 2-3 years (personal and work related). Yeah, maybe they could track the number to the city it was sold in, and maybe the store too...but it might be reaching to think that they could track the printer to you. If you're truly worried about it, pay cash for your next printer.

I think if you just avoid printing counterfeit money, kiddy-porn, and threatening memos to the President you should be just fine.

**Tippster** · 10-19-2005, 08:58 AM

...an article in PC World magazine pointed out that printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered across the page...

Easy solution: Use an Inkjet.

**Sphinx** · 10-19-2005, 09:00 AM

I have a black and white postscript printer. There IS no yellow dot.

Bwahahahahaha!!!

burn this message after you have read it

**cj001f** · 10-19-2005, 09:05 AM

Can't the feds spot the plume of diesel smoke from your truck anyways?

There are other security holes out there at the request of various government agencies...

**lemon boy** · 10-19-2005, 09:11 AM

it acts as a very effective smoke screen though so I figure 6=1/2 doz.

**DBdude** · 10-19-2005, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by DJSapp

Note to self: keep old dot-matrix printer working forever.

Exactly!!!!

**jump** · 10-19-2005, 09:53 AM

Bustin' out the typewriter!

**KevinDineen** · 10-19-2005, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

Sorry but the why worry if you're not breaking the law argument holds no water for me.

I'm with Lemon Boy on this. That argument only works if you assume the government only passes laws that are right and just, which history has shown has never been the case in any society.

**Ski Monkey** · 10-19-2005, 10:38 AM

Those of you that are suggesting using an inkjet, or old printer are missing the point. The government is slowly intruding and monitoring our lives with increasing frequency every passing day. I know, it's just just a color laser printer, but where does it end? All these seemingly harmless monitoring tools add up quickly to the sum of a collective police monitored state.

**Woodsy** · 10-19-2005, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by SkiingBear

I think if you just avoid printing counterfeit money, kiddy-porn, and threatening memos to the President you should be just fine.

phht, like thats easy.

**laseranimal** · 10-19-2005, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by jump

Bustin' out the typewriter!

typewriter's worse, didn't they track the unabomber down by finding the fontset on his typewriter?

although its been so long anyone with the knowledge of the ins and outs of typewriters are probably all put out to pasture by now(or dead)

**LIP** · 10-19-2005, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Ski Monkey

Those of you that are suggesting using an inkjet, or old printer are missing the point. The government is slowly intruding and monitoring our lives with increasing frequency every passing day. I know, it's just just a color laser printer, but where does it end? All these seemingly harmless monitoring tools add up quickly to the sum of a collective police monitored state.

My favorite bumper sticker I saw the other day.....
"It's OK, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway!!"
Big Brother is watching all of us closer and closer every day, and it scares the living snot out of me. McCarthyism is starting to make a comeback. It ain't the commies this time, it's the terrorists.

**Spats** · 10-19-2005, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by edg

Why would you worry unless you're counterfeiting? They need the original printer to be able to match the two up, and they're only gonna get that under warrant...

edg

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're killing me here.

The government has already demonstrated it's totally willing to abuse wiretaps with the help of the "No More Bill of Rights Act" (i.e. the "Patriot Act"). The FBI has done thousands of warrantless wiretaps as a result.

By your logic, it should be OK for the government to put a GPS in your car and automatically give you a speeding ticket every time you go 1 mile over the limit. Well, there's a reason that the Founding Fathers wrote the constitution: it was to prevent the government from getting the sort of powers for which they fought a war against the King in the first place, and to ensure that rebellion was always possible if such a war became necessary. (The Third Amendment was a reaction against a government practice of the time: forcing families to lodge the King's soldiers in their houses.)

We have the technological tools to create an airtight dictatorship right now. Orwell was, and is, right, and 1984 is quickly becoming reality. The only way to stop it is for *all of us* to get involved. Join the ACLU, join the EFF, and stop electing smiling front men for the fascist neo-cons.

For Britain, it's already too late. They're implementing the National ID card. Welcome to hell.

**Pinner** · 10-19-2005, 11:05 AM

I think you're missing the more significant news here.

Michael Flatley has a new show!

**alto** · 10-19-2005, 11:15 AM

What struck me from the article is that this particular method dates back at least 10 years, which points to the fact that the neo-conservatives and patriot act supporters who are so dominant today are just a distraction from the deeper perpetrators of the intrusions on the American public's liberties.

**Ireallyliketoski2** · 10-19-2005, 11:21 AM

Let the anarchy offensive begin, I'm dusting off my cookbook as I type.

Hmmmm, how to make your own LSD, think I'll start here.

**irul&ublo** · 10-19-2005, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Pinner

I think you're missing the more significant news here.

Michael Flatley has a new show!

What happened to this one?:

**cj001f** · 10-19-2005, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by alto

What struck me from the article is that this particular method dates back at least 10 years, which points to the fact that the neo-conservatives and patriot act supporters who are so dominant today are just a distraction from the deeper perpetrators of the intrusions on the American public's liberties.

Can I borrow your tinfoil?

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