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Reminds me of the issue where Xerox machines would replace some 9’s on your scanned documents with 0’s due to over enthusiastic compression. https://www.dkries
by leokennis 3y ago
Reminds me of the issue where Xerox machines would replace some 9’s on your scanned documents with 0’s due to over enthusiastic compression.
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
- xingped 3y agoHoly cow, the implications of that story were terrifying! I can't believe it took 8yrs for someone to notice!
- KennyBlanken 3y agoIt's absolutely astounding that they weren't sued into the ground for that. Contracts, medications, engineering drawings, chemical formulae...
- adhvaryu 3y agoWow, I can't believe they shipped the product knowing this could happen and thought that putting 2 warnings in the software guidebook (who reads that?) would suffice. Maybe they only added that in to avoid getting sued. Also, reading the timeline was great. > March 2015 The German Federal Office for Safety in Information Technology bans JBIG2 from being used for archival purposes. Wonder if any other governments took notice as well.