…remember a time when The Register was a good up to date and reliable place to go for IT news? No? Then either a) you’re a normal person who doesn’t know or care what I’m babbling on about (congratulations!) or b) that was so long ago you really can’t rememeber.

Visiting the site for the first time in (literally) years today it was interesting to see how far they’ve fallen, being beaten to rehashing a 2 day old EFF press release by The Metro.

This is the The Register story, published 9:55 this morning.

Here’s a picture of today’s Metro, presumably published sometime last night.

If you’re interested, the story is:

Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print

San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.

Luckily I’m a traditionalist and tend to make my ransom notes out of bits of hacked up newsprint.