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Julian Sanchez | 10.17.2005 3:30 PM


Boing Boing reports on coded identifying information that many color printers surreptitiously store in each page they produce. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has reverse-engineered the system one company, Xerox, uses to encode time, date, and printer serial number in the documents their machines produce.

Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.