Comment by CobrastanJorji
3 days ago
No need to examine the printer. Just find a sheet of paper that printer printed, decode the dots, and then print your super illegal whatever with their printer's dots and a timestamp that makes sense for whatever you're framing them for doing. Nobody's ever gonna believe "the dots were a lie." They sound too much like fingerprints.
Or just go to a big box retailer, grab a couple of serial numbers off of the packaging, and then randomize per page.
Better than nothing, but you probably don't want to produce a document that purports to have been printed by three different printers that were likely only in the same place during a relatively short period surrounding when you went to see them. You'd be better off just making up serial numbers.
Nah, it's even better. "These messages were printed on a variety of different printers on three separate dates, but all of the printers were in an Office Depot during that time. Now we just need to go through the footage of those days to see who was in that store on all three days." Meanwhile, you're in another state on those days, doing crime.
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Assumes single page documents
Why is the randomizing step needed?
why randomize a mac address?
If everything you print has the same fictitious serial number, it's still a stable identifier that can be triangulated.
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just to throw of the scent. why do people bounce around TOR nodes?