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I read about this a long time ago. Then Alex Jones was barking about it and saying his "Inside FBI Friend" told him as if it was the first time anyone ever heard about it and he broke it WIDE OPEN.
source
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots?utm_source=pocket-newtab
whe you print shit there is a little code. its the size of a matrix dot or several of them in a pattern that is like a personal bar code for the FEDs to know exactly who you are or who originally purchased that printer you own.
so if you bought a printer with a credit card and or registered it in your name and think "well I'll print a threat to someone or I'll print some NSA or FBI "NDA" documents to the press. The feds will know its you
On 3 June, 2017, FBI agents arrived at the house of government contractor Reality Leigh Winner in Augusta, Georgia. They had spent the last two days investigating a top secret classified document that had allegedly been leaked to the press. In order to track down Winner, agents claim they had carefully studied copies of the document provided by online news site The Intercept and noticed creases suggesting that the pages had been printed and “hand-carried out of a secured space”.
In an affidavit, the FBI alleges that Winner admitted printing the National Security Agency (NSA) report and sending it to The Intercept. Shortly after a story about the leak was published, charges against Winner were made public.
At that point, experts began taking a closer look at the document, now publicly available on the web. They discovered something else of interest: yellow dots in a roughly rectangular pattern repeated throughout the page. They were barely visible to the naked eye, but formed a coded design. After some quick analysis, they seemed to reveal the exact date and time that the pages in question were printed: 06:20 on 9 May, 2017 – at least, this is likely to be the time on the printer’s internal clock at that moment. The dots also encode a serial number for the printer.
These “microdots” are well known to security researchers and civil liberties campaigners. Many colour printers add them to documents without people ever knowing they’re there.
