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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Sunday, January 29, 2023

John Barbieri '09

Contributing Writer

Number of Articles: 2

First Article: September 27, 2005

Latest Article: November 10, 2005

Secret coding by household printers is the government's violation of our trust

By John Barbieri '09

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November 10, 2005

It sounds like some crazy conspiracy theory, but it isn’t. On Oct. 17, the EFF revealed that it had cracked the code used by a line of Xerox printers. The printers would print a series of tiny yellow dots invisible to the naked eye that contained information detailing the serial number of the printer as well as the date and time that the document was printed. They also found that printers from almost all major printer brands, including Canon and Hewlett-Packard, print similar coded dot sequences

Point: Hydrogen cars are not a currently feasible option for the United States

By John Barbieri '09

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September 27, 2005

Imagine a giant coal plant or other fossil fuel power plant spewing black smoke into the atmosphere, increasing greenhouse gases. Now imagine your hydrogen car, which is supposed to produce water as its only emission, spewing the same smoke out of its tailpipe. Does your so-called “clean” car look so good anymore? Hydrogen cars themselves may directly produce no harmful emissions, but the hydrogen fuel that powers them is not created in an environmentally-friendly manner. In the United States, t

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