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Monday, November 29, 1999
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COPY-CODE-CONSPIRACY UPDATE
J.J. Johnson, husband of Libertarian Party VP candidate Nancy Lord
Johnson, has received confirmation [1] of the existence of invisible
tracking numbers encoded into color photocopies, which he recently
reported on. [2] I also found and received some confirmation. [3]
Johnson received confirmation from Color Laser Printer Engineer Richard
Longcoat with Xerox. Longcoat told Johnson: "The 'encrypted' code
reveals the serial number of the color copier that made the document.
This is because the quality of a well tuned color laser printer could
be used to print extremely good counterfeit money, Stocks and Bonds,
Etc... My understanding is that Xerox, as well as other makers of High
Quality Color copiers have an agreement with the Treasury Department,
(not the CIA). Since there is no foolproof way for the copier to
recognize...currencies, a code is included."
Apparently the government actually prohibited color photocopy machines
from being sold unless they included the encoding technology. It's
surprising that so few people have heard of this, yet it supposedly goes
back many years. Even searching counterfeit-related-Internet resources
turned up nothing on color-copy encoding. It's so unheard of I got
responses after forwarding Johnson's initial post that said it was
"another crazy conspiracy theory... too many people would know, how
would they all keep it secret..." But it seems that it has been kept
"secret" from most people. But why keep it "secret"?
The purpose of keeping color-copy-encoding quite may be to encourage
counterfeiters to do their dirty deed, so they will then get caught. Or
maybe it's feared that if they figure out the encoding technology, it
could be circumvented. Whatever the reason, if the government compels
private makers of any color-printing presses to include a technology
that places hidden tracking codes on all the prints, then that is
clearly a violation of both the letter and the spirit of Freedom Of The
Press.
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[1] http://www.jj-johnson.com/copiers2.htm
[2] http://www.jj-johnson.com/copiers.htm
[3] Statements about the existence of hidden codes can be
found here http://www.c-prompt-dev.com/bulletin.0119.htm
and here http://www.naqp.org/staging1/press/copier_fraud.html
Interesting history of covert photocopy technology:
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/xerox.htm
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From: Ray Earnest <eraye@eatel.net
To: bigbopper36@webtv.net <bigbopper36@webtv.net
Cc: texan13@topica.com <texan13@topica.com
Subject: Re: Are Copiers used to Track us?
Date: Sunday, November 28, 1999 6:35 PM
Phillip, while the government agencies can use this as you suspect, it
was established to prevent counterfeiting on these color machines. We
had a case a few years ago where some boys ran a few hundred dollars off
on one of the Xerox machines, and it was difficult for the feds to run
them down, but they did. I guess the invisible marks are the results of
this. I made contact with the boys and informed them that they should
try to bring up the fact that it is not possible to counterfeit a
counterfeit, but their lawyer was as stupid as they, so they were
convicted and jailed.
Ray Earnest