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Is your printer spying on you?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Crusader, Oct 19, 2005.

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    The EFF has discovered that your color laser printer is most likely spying on you. Well sort of. It seems most modern laser printers print a set of yellow dots, that is used to identify from which printer a page was printed. This was basically added to detect and help prosecute counterfeiters.

    Now the privacy advocates are up in arms. To me it doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but then again, I'm not that worried about my privacy (and I don't own a color laser printer :p )

    You can check here if your printer is a spy.
     
    Crusader, Oct 19, 2005 IP
  2. dilipsam

    dilipsam Well-Known Member

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    Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers

    It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it isn't. The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hidden information that could be used to track you down if you ever cross the U.S. government.

    Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html

    I don't belong to the US and hence I can't comment on this. What are your reactions, people?

    Dilip
     
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  3. Crusader

    Crusader Peon

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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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  5. devAngel

    devAngel Banned

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    hah! i always thought somebody's tracking all the things i do....hmmm...;)
     
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  6. noppid

    noppid gunnin' for the quota

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    That's like 3 month old news.
     
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    tesla Notable Member

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    It may be 3 months old, but it is new to me. I see the government abusing this technology. What stops someone else from tracking you?
     
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    printers are freakin' scarry...spitting out papers...who do they think they are?!
     
    blackwind, Oct 20, 2005 IP