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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

    No fucking way

    In 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sought a decoding method and made available a Python script for analysis.

    In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer.

    The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances.

    This article gave me the creeps, is awesome and terrifying