Is Your Printer Spying On You?

By Alex in Everything Else on Feb 16, 2006 at 2:07 am

Yes, your printer is spying on you, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information.

That’s right – that "anonymous memo" you printed on your last printer may not be so anonymous after all…

Link | Xerox DocuColor’s Tracking Dots


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  1. Alicia
    Feb 21st, 2006 at 11:37 am

    Can you spell New World Order? Well, it’s out there and it’s very real!


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