The Secret Codes that Printers Put on Every Paper
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Episode written by Adam Chase
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Bricks are sexy
A 7 bit counter can in fact NOT count from 1 to 127, it can count from 0 to 127, hence why most people believe it can count to 128, binary ALWAYS counts from 0
Probably the frog side, because I never knew that, and would of never expected that to be a debate among people!
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skill share: ......
I tend to place the frog diagonal
I would actually be interested in a brick video.
I second that
Same
Hear, Hear
Frog down
Probably won't happen since there's likely no way to work planes into it
No wonder why my printer always “runs out of yellow ink”...
And doesn't print black and white when it's out of color inks.
@@KafshakTashtak Thats because even when printing black and white the printer uses a tiny bit of colour every time, so over time you eventually run out, forcing you to buy more etc etc...
u could just get a black and white ONLY printer.
dumbass........
What if i built my own diy printer haha
@@geetakhatri4591 well all public drivers (code thing) will have this software. And good luck getting windows to recognize it
FBI: **uses yellow dots for identification**
Me, an intellectual: **prints on yellow paper**
Alessandro Celoria the codes were made to stop counterfeit money and no one will take yellow money
Stephan Timmy they were just making a joke
@@chloroclymor8388 r/wooosh
Wot
@@chloroclymor8388 then paint it over with green
Thats why my windows always asked me "do you trust this printer?" i shouldve known!
Printer rights matter!
Yes, your windows. Who put them in your walls?
Gates knew this all along and was trying to secretly warn us. I'm sorry, Bill, we should've pay more attention to your message.
He warned us about pandemics as well. (Before corona)
Also there is a wire inside a laser.printer used to reset the charge on the drum. It is called the corona wire!
@@stargamer777 exactly!! It's gives positive charge to photoreceptor drum.
But I wanna learn about bricks. :(
Don’t worry, I do too
Me too
Can he actually make a video about bricks (like I'm being serious)
HEAR OUR VOICES, WE NEED A BRICK VIDEO
i have no idea about bricks but i want those symbols up so when i find a brick in the ground that was once the foundation of a building i can see the symbol
You require yellow ink.
But I'm printing in black.
YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK.
But its 40 dollars.
*YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK.*
WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED YELLOW INK?
*Knock Knock Knock*
*FBI OPEN UP!*
i bet that's why you need color cartidges to print B&W
Lol, I've been looking for a comment like this.
This happened to me just a couple of days ago! My yellow ran out and I hadn't used the printer much since intalling it. I was asking for a b/w print, but it would because the yellow was gone.
It's because printers mix colors to give " blacker blacks and whiter whites" when in reality Its just a way to get people to use up their color cartridges without knowing
Might as well get some minerals. You might require more of them anyways.
We deserve a video that sounds like it’s gonna be about the feds but turns out to be about bricks.
Say no more
“The world government, based in DC” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that got me good
I am more amazed by the fact that there are bricklaying forums than about the secret codes thing.
Freemasons
@@markdavis7397 frog up
frog forward
ya same
frog sideways
Can I bill the government for yellow toner wasted? Color toner is crazy expensive.
AboboKing The money probably pays for the cost of the program.
I just buy an ink refill kit from eBay and I refill the same ink cartridges multiple times for SUPER cheap. Make sure you buy the correct color ink. (and don't buy the HUGE black ink bottle, just buy the small kit with all 3 colors and black)
Probably yes
@@maverick2377 If anyone plan to do this, buy a printer without DRM cartridges or you literally won't be able to refill them without the printer refusing to work.
@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 Yes! If anyone is wondering, my printer that allows me to refill is the Canon TS3122.
Bought it at Walmart for cheap.
7bit is, in fact, 128 values. Not 127. All zeroes, adding to "0", is what you forgot in your explanation. Hence, a total 128 unique values. Signed, Computer Guy.
Ah that's why I thought something was off but couldn't pinpoint what. Thank you, Computer Guy.
0 = 1 and 1 = 0.
Not to mention that he said "1 to 127" but the animation lit 64 not 1
actually, it isn't signed
@@fyggy5480 Yes, that's unsigned 7-bit.
Back in 1994 , before I knew about it, I accidentally found them when I was trying
to make a photo quality print.
I kept getting these yellow dots messing up my expensive photo
paper and figured my printer was breaking down .
Found out years later what it really was .
Now I dont trust any technology to be anonymous .
We all demand a brick video. At the beginning you can put the location of all the nuclear silos in the US, so the bricklayer assigned to your channel will get bored and leave.
Yes!
HAI you must do this for all the viewers
I need this
I'm more shocked about the fact that the US used DD/MM/YYYY
@Shy'mGagaFan2007 it's wrong I tell you!!!
It is the superior date format.
@No Charge Everyday Americans use it too for their arguably most important date, 4th of July.
Winston Smith When someone asks you what day it is, you don't say "the 25th of March" or "the 7th of September", you say "March 25th" or "September 7th". Why should writing it down be any different?
@@luked8449 why is today then "4th of July" ?
Him: They use yellow dots
Me an intellectual: Black and white printer
Aksh The Friendly Potato And then, no fake dollar bills
Intelligent, mister intellectual.
@@gleysonoliveira802 Fair enough
I'm sure you're a great potato and all, but writing "Me an intellectual" suggests otherwise.
Omega secret sauce algorithm that creates color out of your black and white ink 😈 👓
i knew about the code, didnt know it had the time and date too..
fun fact: in some printers, you can swap the ink cartridges around, put the black or blue cartridge in the yellow spot.
makes it easier to see.
some printers check if the right colour is in the right spot though, and wont print unless they are correct
just replace the ink inside and you good to go, diy catridge :))
And hear we thought our IT teacher was nuts,
always keeping his 'old' printer cause the gov was tracking printouts...
that was 2003... i feel stupid now
He might still have been nuts. It's just that he was right. You can be both nuts and right at the same time.
I kept my old HP black only laser printer Just in
case
@@ypop417 My HP 2100 is my main printer. Damn good printer ever since I got it in 2000. It don't talk to anybody.
The greatest protection against the government invading your privacy is the fact that they probably don't care. (Unless you're doing counterfeiting in your basement or something.)
@@soaringvulture Yep just black and white no color
Is there a whole episode about bricks spread out between your videos?
no. as far as i know there are only two times when he talked about bricks.
@@calebmurray3945 this and?
The video about JANET - the US government's secret airline.
No, he cannot release an episode about bricks, otherwise Freemasons will get angry for releasing their secrets!
I want a full video about Bricks now
I'm suing the government for using and stealing MY ink to print this code without my consent!
actually do it
Only sue them for the yellow ink expenses lol
@@aram7863 the government
@@aram7863 its pretty obvious patrick star would be judging the case.
Brick-gate 🤣🤣🤣
After learning this I was surprised how easily I could see the pattern of red dots after printing something with a yellow background. Can't believe this wasn't discovered earlier!
I wanted to know about frogs on bricks.
I've never thought I would say that
r/brandnewsentence
same here
*BRRRRRRICKFROG!*
If you want to know about frogs in bricks, then I'm sure you'll be equally as interested in learning about frogs on horses. Google it!
Catherine Moore
I read that as “frogs *in* horses” and got scared…
Haha, jokes on you FBI. Anytime I want to use my printer, it doesn't bloody work/connect to my wifi/etc
Anytime I use mine, it's out of yellow!
Mine prints error messages!
I think this only applies to color laser printers, don't see any dots on stuff I printed on Inkjet.
@@thequantaleaper Inkjet print quality is too low to counterfeit money anyway.
Mine always has connection issues, paper jam, or error state
Me: doesn't put yellow ink into my printers.
FBI Agent on My Computer: Jimmy get the terror squad ready. They found out about the printers.
1:37 “its not weird ok its fashionable” 😂
That's why I print my documents on yellow paper.
Goverment: he played us like damn fiddle
You do know that doesn't make a difference right?
@@potatoman8609 i you first print all yellow paper (print yellow on white) then something on it it does difference cause yellow on dots is same as yellow of paper
if u'd use purple paper the yellow dots would be easiest to see.
maybe black works too
@@alanowa123 The government won't be fooled by easy tricks.
This guy's transitions into his ads are smoother than a government spy.
Honestly I find them to be pretty jarring.
Lol yeah
He gives Linus a run for his money
As a person watching linus, he also used a similiar pattern, aka not smooth enough. Smoothes transition award goes to Internet Historian
getting blocked by me for that shilling. there's more shilling than content.
Now that there is a brick video, can you please make a compilation of all brick scenes? lol
Half as interesting is basically school but more interesting and with memes.
*I LOVE IT*
I legit want an episode on bricks.
Are you stupid or something? That's what you just watched.
tuukka aro we want more brick episodes, or even better, a channel dedicated to bricks.
what if there is a video about bricks and the have to peice it back together
Jan-Sen Cheng finally an episode the FBI won’t know about
bricks of what? dope?
Nobody:
Make a video about something important
Everybody:
Is the frog of the brick up or down?
Down
Frogs facing each other for a secret long term hiding compartment.
I just have to say, I’m a mason, and I got super excited when you started with bricks. And yes, the debate is raw with the masons on frogs. The Red Seal standard is frog up. Fortunately cored brick is more common then frogged brick.
Why is that mark called a frog is where my brain went when he told us about it. thx.
now i know why the printer demands all the colors just to print in black and white
4:26 "And nobody ever figured out what the 15th column does"
Maybe some sort of checksum? (to detect if there is any mistake due to some missing dots)
It could be that, or possibly a code for the manufacturer, country of origin, or some other geographical ID. That reduces the problem of having to police printer companies too much to make them use different SNs for their products, as well as helps you target specific countries and/or companies for having any printers capable of counterfeiting for economic reprisals (increased fees, fines, tariffs, etc.).
Its a parity bit to make total number of dots in a row even. If total no of dots in a row is not even then there is error in the code.
Beings that's how barcodes work, I think that's what it is
Serial number perhaps to identify the said printer?
@@michaeldesanta5810 isn't that what the "row parity" column is for (2:37)?
* Printer runs out of yellow *
Printer: I'm the brick now.
OOooooOOOooooOOOOOo
Who uses printer's as bricks
Damn it, I was really enjoying the brick part!
3:05 how are you going to explain this programming concept better than any programmer i've ever heard it from. I finally get it, and its so simple wtf.
Bricks are a really fascinating topic. Glad you're one of the few CZcamsrs to talk about them.
You’re helping us hide this from the fbi, thank you
FBI: There is no way this man can make another brick video
*Wendover: Hold my Brick*
Lmao
Me: I’m not funny
Me: Hold my funny
I guess I'll never know if frog up or frog down.
Ribbit!
Down. You want to put that frog down.
I really enjoyed this video about brick laying, the fact that you spoke about brick laying and nothing else for the entire video is brilliant
HAI: Changing topic from bricks to FBI secrets.
FBI agent that is interested in bricks: "You weren't supose to do that!"
He actually was supposed to do that if you check the title
"Finally the FBI is gone"
CIA joined the chat
i just found this channel and i love it!!! I've been watching wendover productions for forever and never would have thought you were so funny!!!
Dude!
That ... That ... That has got to be 1 of the best visual demos of binary code is have yet to see!
Well done
Could you do a HAI episode about laying bricks, specifically frog up vs down? I was actually interested in learning about it.
always use frog up
it uses up less mortar
The US used day/month/year in something?
No, looks like they used year - month - day (like they should base on iso8601), but you read the columns backwards.
Given that basically every column seems to be backwards, I'd say that they're probably just printing those codes all backwards and the YY/MM/DD format is actually used, probably because those codes are read by machines only.
@@jbird4478 There is even a reddit for ISO8601. I agree it's the best format for most things, but for some things other formats also have good use.
FBI is already raiding your house bitch
@@jbird4478 Isn't day month year as logical though?
I'm probably missing something.
I would already love it if my printer just prints without problems.
I swear, you guys have the best ad transitions...and I love it.
Who would win? A bunch of professional government workers with unlimited resources at their disposal
OR
Yellow sheet of paper
Yellow paper
Pellow Yaper
Pallow Yeper
You can't really counterfeit with yellow paper.
@@painkillerjones6232 Chinese money.
*prints paper*
*activates LED light*
*decodes*
*”they dun figured me out”*
Nobody does intros like this guy.
Be like this guy.
Oh, so that's why I'm always low on colored ink.
What if you artificialy print some extra dots?
This could theoretically work but you'd have to be VERY precise in your scaling and placement of dots for them to line up. Also your calculations would have to be derived from a previously printed sheet from the specific printer, and the dot pattern would change as time passed, so you'd have to factor that in too. Or print a complete field of dots (all ones, no zeroes), but it'd still have to perfectly match the generated pattern to work.
Not that I've ever given any thought to that question before...
Great question. Software to do just that was produced by TU Dresden. It prints additional yellow dots to disrupt the machine identification code. Its purpose is anonymity, specifically among whistleblowers.
@@onlyGGG any name for that software?
It's called DEDA Toolkit.
nathan adler but surely someone could design a software for counterfeiters to use. Surely it wouldn’t be that hard to do
I actually noticed these dots as a kid, especially on printouts that had been left in the sun to bask in UV for a long time, but had always just chalked it up to print heads being bad and leaking yellow or something. Now I finally know what they were for.
That dollar shave club ad at the end was imidietly executed
I can't believe how good of a teacher half as interesting actually is. They're explaining things so simply that i actually understood how the 1's and 0's work in binary code
I seriously want a vid of you talking about bricks, pls make one....
Uuhhhh, i mean.... Great video about bricks, very interesting, nothing suspicious in here
*Gov:* "We need you to print a secret code on every page..."
*Company:* "Can we print it in color? And replicate it all over the page?"
*Gov:* "Yes... ? "
*Company:* "Say no more!"
Me: **tries to print black and white document**
Printer: *RePlAcE cOlOr CaRtDrIdGe*
How is this a joke?
@@MidnightBloomDev because printer companies are happy if you buy more ink.
Uh ok
@@MidnightBloomDev It's not a joke, it's the fact that we've all been using a substantial amount of extra ink than we've been led to believe we are.
Ok, this video is super helpful and I’m glad I found it when I did. Whenever I print something out off of my printer, I always examine the paper thoroughly and any dots that are found, will have white out put over them. I also switched to a black and white printer to make things easier and removed the yellow ink cartridge from my color printer and got rid of the colors that could be used to make yellow. Government isn’t gonna get me today.
I'm so glad that I still have that old Remington manual typewriter and that old beater Panasonic dot matrix printer and a large supply of carbon paper.
I genuinely want to see a full wendover or hai video on bricks because this is interesting as hell and I’m a dork
3:02 just a slight correction, it’s between 0 and 127
Yes
Yep. That's what happens when you talk about a topic you know nothing about
@@alexismandelias Yep. A small mistake completely ruins this content. 0/10 ign, would not recommend, would never watch again.
BCD, literally the most simple computer science topic lol
@@amorag59 BCD is binary coded decimal where 4 bits encode a decimal digit
Thanks for the consistently great videos boss
I adore your humor!!! 😂😂 The bricks was hilarious
This sounds like a good argument for making an open-source printer!
That is actually a really good idea!!!!
Isn’t open source only for code?
@@reyariass No, open source hardware is absolutely a thing.
@@reyariass
Many years before arduino or today's open source hardware, sparc processors already were. Remember that sparc cpus were (and probably are today) one of the very best performing cpus in the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC
@@reyariass Hardware can be open-source too. The current trending topic is RISC-V processor.
7 bit is any number between 0 and 127 i.e. 2^7 = 128 numbers. Don't forget zero :)
Haha yes! I thought something was off when he said 127
@@hyperxalloyfpspelinappaimi8447 Well 127 is the maximum number that can be achieved with 7 bits, but people always forget to count zero as a number!
@@hyperxalloyfpspelinappaimi8447 It actually goes up to 127 because that is the sum of 2^0 through 2^6. This is why binary works. The sum of the previous powers of 2 is always 1 less than the next power of 2.
@@garybea8562 Possibly the last column shows the order for a zero?
@@pitaya4151 last one was prob error detection and it showed if the whole row was odd or even etc
I thought half as interesting was may be a one off but now I'm hooked
That was interesting, and the beat below was pretty dope.
You know that when HAI pulls out its brick facts, it's gonna be one of _those_ videos
Fun Facts about Bricks.
Fun
Brick
Information
@@err53 That's incredible. Well done.
Halfbrick as Interesting?
With a profile pic like that, you must be a man of culture
AH, so that's why I can't print black and white documents when I'm out of Cyan Ink
Omg I always got frustrated like YOU DONT NEED FKING YELLOW TO PRINT MY BLACK TEXT but now I know
I thought the codes were only in yellow?
This seems to be for only color based printers, so if your out of a color, it should print in black and white only, it’s just the manufacturer having a bad design if it won’t let you choose.
Get an 1980 printers
@@silvervens ...and a computer with a serial port to connect the printer to.
...also, some ancient Operating System for the whole thing to work.
...and good luck finding the toner/ink cartridge for it!
Apart from those "minor" details, yes, that should work.
I’m a student forensic scientist and I did document analysis yesterday. This is fascinating!
Your videos are so entertaining that I wasn’t going to click away from a video about which way a brick should face
That’s why you make threat letters with newspaper or magazine cut outs of each letter.
Not that I do that....
After you make the threat letter, to hide any fingerprints or any microscopic physical evidence that can trace to your location, photocopy the threat letter several times from different office buildings you infiltrated to ensure anyone trying to trace you will be confused.
Also, save any time threatening people because you were arrested during your first time infiltrating an office.
@@thewatcherinthecloud Have you thought about this?
@@thewatcherinthecloud but then the office buildings paper will have the time which they can they use with security footage to find you
Just write it like kids write, fully clenched hand with cheapest and most available ballpoint pen and most popular paper in country. To additionally make it harder, put a clean sheet of paper, never touching it with bare hands, in a plastic bag with indigo paper in there as well. Put another sheet on top of the plastic bag and write on that. Now you have clean, pre-wrapped paper with your message. In addition to that, avoid complex sentences and flourishing words, avoid names, comas and full-stops.
what if I buy a printer off craigslist and use that, then throw it out?
Printers now also analyze what they are printing every time you print something to make sure it's not money. So basically every time you print your printer says "Is this money? nope, just a cat saying "hang in there" go ahead"
@queeditchable that's true, it doesn't know it's a cat... That was more for what I was hoping would be comedic effect
This answers my question: Does this still happen, or are there new ways that the Gov't checks for counterfeiting? I am aware that printers/copiers are able to automatically shut down if they get bribed to copy currency, but enlighten me further!
Besides paper money is obviously fake feeling versus the cotton money is made of. People would notice right away
@@vitalnutrients744 well, if you could manufacture the correct material, there's really nothing stopping you from running it through a printer
This is why you should intentionally set your printer to the wrong time
4:30 The last column is your general location. However, this feature is redundant, as each US state sells a different kind of ink so investigators can trace where the counterfiet was made.
The "Bricks for the FBI" continuation is so damn good..... well done Sam, well done indeed.
so THAT'S why my yellow ink always gets depleted even when i print in only cyan
well shit my cyan monopoly money s getting tracked down
The Monopoly Police will be knocking on your door any day now!
Rolling 'go to jail' way more than usual suddenly
Arrest has increased to 99.81
As a Coloradoan, I can confirm that the Denver airport does house aliens.
"Frog orientation" is my new favorite phrase
The 15th code shows which side frogs on bricks should face.
*We're spilling some secret government tea.*
Also half as interesting: *titles video named secret codes *
oooh! A rubiks cube! Yeah, I speed solve those competitively. Cool to see one in an HAI video
you are the best at transitions, bar none
The code actually just says that you just ran out of printer ink, and that you should buy some right now to finish printing whatever you were printing.
Finally, a logical explanation. It's not that the company that sells printers would voluntarily oblige handing out such customer-sensitive documents to the government by labeling codes
New game. Every time HAI and Wendover Productions does their intro's, try to guess the sponsor
4:12 That’s literally exactly 1 year before I was born 😳
every time he does the brick gag i get so excited to learn about bricks
This is now one more reason why I don't want my printer's "diagnostic" data being sent to HP, as personal information could be leaked. Although would all documents have this tracking system, whether it's being sent to anyone or not?
I honestly really want to know more about the frog debate now 😳
These videos keep on getting meme-er and meme-er
My personal experience attempting to photocopy money on two different machines: I was excited to see a copy come out. Then I noticed a message appeared on the little screen telling me it was illegal to photocopy currency. The "copy" was shiny with a crazy amount of black toner.
That's it I am filling my yellow ink cartridge with black ink
That'll make the dots easier to see.
@FIN_LehtiOnTäällä LEHTI invisible ink can become visible when heat is applied, which oxidizes it making it absorb some visible light
Scott Henrie fill it with water then
@@ashkechum101 that will make the paper wet, just put white ink
You idiot, the dots would still be there. And for those suggesting any other color, including white, same deal for you morons. Anyone with a loop could see white printed on white. Because white is almost always not white. It will merely be more difficult to see, but most definitely not impossible.
**Printer companies want to know your location**
**Printer companies already know your location**
@@misaalanshori oh no
@@misaalanshori *loud knocking*
"FBI OPEN UP!"...
It's all fun and games until someone print a currency with a lot of yellow colors in it.
I'm more amazed by the fact that I'm more amazed by the fact!
Mom: why are you looking at piece of paper with a magnifying glass
Me: yellow are our enemies, we must kill them at all costs
Totally missed out on the chance to use the scene from office space of them smashing a printer!
*PC load letter?!?!?* 🤬
0:40 As someone who loves in Denver I find that pretty accurate because of all the rumors.
Bricks are actually so interesting. I wonder if HAI has a video on it? 🤔