**BREAKING NEWS**
I am here to get rich quick on Crypto
and preach the good word to all the weenie squiddies out there - don't follow me - just want it.
oh YES.
Since the 1980s, Xerox and Canon made a secret deal with the US Secret Service. every color laser printer now embeds invisible yellow dots on every single page it produces. too small to see with the naked eye. they repeat up to 150 times per page so they survive cropping, damage, even shredding.
the dots encode:
— your printer's serial number
— the exact date and time of printing
— the manufacturer
no law requires manufacturers to tell you this. most printer manuals don't mention it. you almost certainly didn't know.
The first use case was counterfeiting. catching people printing fake money. reasonable.
Then, in 2017, Reality Winner printed a classified NSA document and mailed it to journalists. investigators cross-referenced the yellow dots with security footage. she was identified, arrested, and sentenced to 5 years.
because there is no law regulating who can request this information. no warrant requirement. no oversight. the EFF has been saying this since 2004 and nothing has changed.
you can check if your printer does this. the EFF maintains a list: https://t.co/mffS4X92kw
@Verizon that was the worst customer experience of my life. Please make amends. Invoice : MTWHIIN21800 I gave the phone back. She said I couldn't. I did so anyway. That I didnt want this transaction to go through. She told me there was nothing she could do. please!
There’s literally nothing weird about Thomas Matthew Crooks emailing a deputy from Butler, PA before the assassination attempt. It’s not weird that he practiced shooting at the same range Homeland Security used. It’s not weird that the local police and Secret Service spotted Crooks with a rangefinder, photographed him, and texted about him for over an hour and still let him climb the roof with a rifle. It’s not weird that the Secret Service wasn’t flying drones that day, but Crooks was. It’s not weird that Butler was the first Trump rally of the year with Secret Service anti-sniper agents on the roofs. It’s not weird that Crooks’ house looked like a sterile lab with no trash or silverware. And it’s not weird that his body was cremated ten days later before Congress could see it. This is like when people say the CIA was shadowing Oswald before he, and he alone, shot JFK.