Re: [SLUG] Finger printing your color printing...

From: Possum (possum@possumism.net)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 10:04:09 EDT


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Robin (Bartow FL) wrote:
> Subject: [SLUG] Finger printing your color printing...
>
>> could lead to the whistleblowing blues
>>
>> http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35239
>>
>> /robin
>
> No Linux distro or Linux application cannot protect you from this
privacy exploitation.
>
> /robin
>

Why does this sound familiar?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/18/0319203

That article covers a Samsung printer driver ( possibly this one:
http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=ml85p ) that was setuid
root, allowing underprivileged users to execute arbitrary code. This
comment from said article may be interesting:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=251801&cid=19899069

Specifically, "well some places printers are encouraged(required)
by law (enforcement) to leave secret and invisible watermarks.
If it isn't done in the printer, it's done in the driver[...]"

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