Numerous brands of color laser printers leave coded metadata in barely perceptible yellow dots that can be used to trace a printed document to its source, a feature originally intended as a ...

The hidden yellow dot ID pattern technology on some color laser printers has actually been around since Xerox developed it in the '90s. The primary reason for the dots is purportedly to help the ...

A series of encodings on printouts from color laser printers to discourage counterfeiting ... So far, Hill has heard of no one who has been able to hack their printer to remove the mechanism that ...

The code is printed on every color page as a series of minuscule yellow dots, arranged on a widely-spaced rectangular 15 by 8 grid. On a regular piece of white printer paper, the faint yellow dots ...

The tiny yellow dots in The Intercept’s document ... and their inclusion in the firmware that runs color laser printers. They’ve been tracking the use of these dots for a decade.

As color laser printers become affordable enough for small ... Consumers who discover the dots are understandably surprised. Brahm’s Yellow Dots, a blog dating from 2008, chronicles the efforts ...

With the advent of the color printer came a new way for felons to ... is with a blue LED light and a magnifying glass: If the yellow dots show up you can be sure that page is traceable back ...