25 Aug
2004
25 Aug
'04
12:25 p.m.
CONFUSED here. How the heck do you scan a printer
ribbon?
:-)
It's to read the indentations and find out what high
security material was printed with it. I kid you not.
(Ok, maybe a little, but this next part is true.)
Back in college we had a hybrid machine donated to
us. Behind a not particularly obvious hinged panel
was a notebook that contained the machine's security
log. Naturally, I read through it and was quite
stunned when I read the entry where they removed
the line printer ribbon, stamped it classified and
locked it in a safe.
Brian L. Stuart