OMG! Do you trust your scanner/photocopier?

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OMG! Do you trust your scanner/photocopier?

Post by focus » Thu 15 Aug , 2013 11:39 am

Check this out.
http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/08 ... n_scanning

Are you sure that only Xerox products affected? Maybe other vendors are doing something like this?
As i know, DJVu file format have similar approach like JBIG2.

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Re: OMG! Do you trust your scanner/photocopier?

Post by Jiffy » Thu 15 Aug , 2013 1:55 pm

Imagine if it put the numbers '69' on something extremely sensible. :D

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Re: OMG! Do you trust your scanner/photocopier?

Post by focus » Thu 15 Aug , 2013 2:27 pm

I imagine, if my, say $60000 in bank account turn to $80000.
Or, if when i print electronic ticket, flight FLIGHT-606 at 16:06 16 OCT 2013 switches to flight FLIGHT-808 at 18:08 18 OCT 2013.

Here, one guy complains that he had similar problem, when he printed electronic ticket for railway out of PDF file. Some symbols and numbers have changed.
http://rsdn.ru/forum/life/5261546.flat

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Re: OMG! Do you trust your scanner/photocopier?

Post by focus » Wed 21 Aug , 2013 3:35 pm

Oh no. Copiers are even more dangerous, than i thought before.
They log everything that passes through them.

Watch.

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