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Even paper glows (lemmy.world)
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[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting. I remember reading a news article before 2017 stating that printers used to do this, but the practice has since ended because someone was able to prove they were doing it in the mid-2000s. At the time, I saw some people on Reddit claiming they just switched to a new, harder to detect method, and everyone was saying they were conspiracy theorists.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On wikipedia there's some suggestion that methods that involve intensity of toner/ink across a document could be used to uniquely identify a machine but no such methods are currently publicly known (at least as far as the Wikipedia article has been updated)

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