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Will be super easy as long as they had the foresight to buy the printer on a credit card and the pizzeria's police force is actually CSI. Seriously, the police
by fleitz 12y ago
Will be super easy as long as they had the foresight to buy the printer on a credit card and the pizzeria's police force is actually CSI.
Seriously, the police are not going to analyze dots on laser printer to track down an extortion for $500, just like they don't swab for prints / DNA on a B&E. Real life is not CSI.
- smacktoward 12y agoIf the extortionist is making threats across state lines, it stops being a $500 matter for the local LEOs and starts being a matter for the FBI.
- chc 12y agoEven if they bought the printer with a check and wrote "FOR CRIMINAL EXTORTION" in the memo field, the fact that the letter was created with an HP printer probably still does not remove enough bits of anonymity to find them.
- cjg 12y agoI had an attempted break-in and the police (UK) did indeed dust for fingerprints - and they caught the guy.
- DanBC 12y agoPrinter tracking dots aren't some super high-tech CSI stuff. https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...