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To: SiouxPal who wrote (55449)	1/19/2006 10:29:45 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362428

Until only recently, movies showed kidnap victims families desparately trying to keep the kidnapper on the telephone line while police/FBI traced the call - remember? Except the technology to trace calls instantaneously has existed for decades. I read an article that suggested people should only pay cash for purchases to keep the govt. from prying into your psyche...so that's what I try to do. I don't shop at Safeway any more, because you can only get the super bargains by entering your telephone number. I wonder what would happen if a person made some bizarre purchases and entered someone else's phone number. Every breath and step we take, it seems, is monitored somehow. I just KNOW it. Yours truly in awaranoia. Muffy Bricklehouse* *pseudonym

To: SiouxPal who wrote (55449)	1/21/2006 10:10:14 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362428

each engine applies a tad different amount of pressure to the Querty alphabet thingies. No, Karen was right. This is not just a case of matching characteristics of a printer with a document. That would require that the printer be found and matched (like matching a bullet to a gun). Instead the govt. has the printer manufacturer place the serial number on the document and this serial number is recorded when you send in your warrenty card (or at least to the store if you don't). eff.org At the request of the United States Secret Service, manufacturers developed mechanisms that print in an encoded form the serial number and the manufacturer's name as indiscernible markings on color documents. The Secret Service and manufacturers would be able to decode these values from the markings and in the event a color machine was used to print a suspected counterfeited document, these values would be used with customer information to discover the identity of the machine's owner. I think that is how they know each fingerprint of our printers. I'm not very technical. Simply put, the printers are required to encode the serial number in a pattern of tiny yellow dots spread around the paper. They don't look like more than a haze, but they contain a string of numbers. TP