David Kriesel: Xerox-Scanner ersetzen Ziffern in Scans
media.ccc.de · Talk · 1 h 4 min · 2015 · YouTube title: David Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast
Why it's here
Called a classic CCC talk, and the Xerox bug is cited as a cautionary tale about trusting scans and digitized archives.
What it covers
David Kriesel's 31C3 talk, in German, on the discovery that Xerox scanner-copiers silently replace digits and letters in scanned documents. He explains how the bug stayed unnoticed in the wild for years.