Since 2006, Xerox scancopiers literally are making stuff up. They, for example, replace digits with others in scans. The replacement digits are layouted perfectly into the page, so the errors are hard to see. Sounds unbelievably insidious, but it's true.

weavilsatemyface · 2022-08-22T07:35:38+00:00

Based on what I know of computing that's just not possible. It's completely antithetical to how copiers work.

Tell me you know nothing of computing without telling me you know nothing of computing :-)

Yes, these scanners do have a lot of computing power. Its not an accident in the sense that the bug is the consequence of deliberate decisions made by the programmers, but it is an accident in the sense that it's a bug, and an old one now fixed.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/08/10/1241249/xerox-confirms-to-david-kriesel-number-mangling-occuring-on-factory-settings

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvy4gb/one-mans-david-and-goliath-battle-to-get-xerox-to-fix-a-major-bug

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2483669/the-xerox-character-substitution-bug-is-worse-than-first-thought.html

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