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<blockquote data-quote="barasawa" data-source="post: 7718429" data-attributes="member: 44909"><p>Don't forget that they apparently had used a lot of rumors and paranoid worst case guessing. No idea if they still do, but their accuracy was far less than desirable. </p><p></p><p>I had to personally explain to an FBI agent back in the 90s that Inkjet & Laser Printers don't have unique fonts, they use whatever the computer sends tells them too, even tolkienesce elvish runes. Also, the inks aren't unique either, as there were only a few manufacturers of the inks, and they package them differently for different printers. Then there are the ink cartridge remanufacturers and refillers, as well as the do it yourself kits. The guy wasn't very happy when he left the store, but he did have a handful of sample prints. (This was before the printers were required to do that very faint dot based identifier.)</p><p></p><p>Also, the secret service raided steve jackson games over the believe that they were making a how to illegally hack computers book. In reality they were making a Cyberpunk setting book for GURPS. So yeah, all those agencies in the government are rather paranoid and clueless about anything not totally mainstream. (As if plugging a computer into your brain, then cruising around cyberspace vr and fighting corporate black ice could be mistaken as reality by anyone that knows jack about computers...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barasawa, post: 7718429, member: 44909"] Don't forget that they apparently had used a lot of rumors and paranoid worst case guessing. No idea if they still do, but their accuracy was far less than desirable. I had to personally explain to an FBI agent back in the 90s that Inkjet & Laser Printers don't have unique fonts, they use whatever the computer sends tells them too, even tolkienesce elvish runes. Also, the inks aren't unique either, as there were only a few manufacturers of the inks, and they package them differently for different printers. Then there are the ink cartridge remanufacturers and refillers, as well as the do it yourself kits. The guy wasn't very happy when he left the store, but he did have a handful of sample prints. (This was before the printers were required to do that very faint dot based identifier.) Also, the secret service raided steve jackson games over the believe that they were making a how to illegally hack computers book. In reality they were making a Cyberpunk setting book for GURPS. So yeah, all those agencies in the government are rather paranoid and clueless about anything not totally mainstream. (As if plugging a computer into your brain, then cruising around cyberspace vr and fighting corporate black ice could be mistaken as reality by anyone that knows jack about computers...) [/QUOTE]
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