Hewlett Packard today announced a new range of security inks for use with confidential information. Company spokesman Findlay d’Isguised said at the company’s press conference earlier today “We were approached by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell who wanted us to attempt to develop this product. Both he and Gordon Brown were concerned that too many confidential official emails and reports are leaked to the press and public before we are ready to release them.”
The new technology, developed at the HP Labs in Bristol, requires the printed (but invisible) documents to be passed through a second process using a decoding liquid which brings the print to the fore.
“Downing Street was insistent that the ink should not be available to the general public.” continued d’Isguised. “However, the development costs have been enormous and Sir Gus finally agreed that a clone of the ink can be marketed. It will be of a slightly different formula and will require a different decoding fluid to make the ink visible. But emails can no longer be leaked electronically – because they will be unreadable.”
The HP Labs at Bristol have developed, among other ground-breaking products, the HP Virus Throttle technology and the SmartFrog framework.
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