Review: Secret codes in printers may allow government tracking

Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its researchers recently broke the code behind the tiny tracking dots and said the US Secret Service confirmed that the tracking is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers to identify counterfeiters. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of...

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Samizdat's critics... Brown replies

Samizdat is a series of excerpts from an upcoming book on open source and operating systems that will be published later this year. AdTI did not publish Samizdat with the expectation that rabidly pro-Linux developers would embrace it. Its purpose is to provide U.S. leadership with a researched presentation on attribution and intellectual property problems with the hybrid source code model, particularly Linux. It is our hope that leadership would find this document helpful with public policy decisions regarding its future investment in Linux and other hybrid source products. The United States is the home of the United States Patent...

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Samizdat: Stinks on Ice

On Monday, 24 May 2004 I found the following note in my inbox: Justin Orndorff : > Attached is an upcoming book to be put out by the > Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (www.adti.net). If > you're receiving this mail then we've probably been in > touch before now, regarding our research. > > Questions / comments / concerns should be directed to > Ken Brown - kenbrown@adti.net > > Have a great weekend, > Justin Orndorff Attached to it was a 92-page PDF that described itself as excerpts from Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the `Source' of Open Source...

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Kucinich: 'Hello, Bath!'(Kucinich's promotional 'samizdat'video makes the rounds in Maine)

Democratic presidential hopeful lays out his vision for America before 400 enthusiastic listeners BATH,MAINE - If you think Dennis Kucinich's campaign for president of the United States is not serious, try explaining that to the more than 400 people who overflowed the sanctuary of the United Church of Christ Congregational on Congress Street Wednesday evening to listen to Kucinich speak. The Democratic presidential candidate stopped in Bath as part of a bus tour of the state that began in Orono earlier and would end late Wednesday night in South Portland. The crowd had to wait more than an hour for...

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The Soldier-Citizen Samizdat

 Spectator.org Print Article         Close Window         Copyright © 2002 Spectator.org. All Rights Reserved. The Soldier-Citizen Samizdat By Published 9/15/2003 12:02:00 AM Another Perspective After President Bush's address to the nation two Sundays ago, I wrote Jed Babbin that people like Terry McAuliffe, the nine dwarves (or eleven, or whatever) in the Democratic presidential race, and the commentariat "have no appetite -- or aptitude -- for the plain truth." To which Jed replied, "Amen." Thankfully, the American people do know the plain truth when they hear it, which is why they continue to support President Bush and the war...

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