Government tracking via printers!

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  1. Malvolio

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    And I thought I was paranoid before :worried:

    Before clicking the link, remember: the government is always watching :eeek:
     
    Malvolio, 18 Oct 2005
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  2. DivineSin

    DivineSin What's a Dremel?

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    They've been doing this for years, you can probably scan a printed piece of paper with a magnifying glass and find a colored dot in one of the corners of the page.
     
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  3. Fly

    Fly inter arma silent leges

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    Yep, same for Colour photocopiers. They all add an individual barcode to the copies so they can be identified.

    I'm OK though, I borrow Maplinman's tin foil hat when I go to the copy room.
     
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  4. WireFrame

    WireFrame <b>PermaBanned</b>

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  5. specofdust

    specofdust Banned

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    Saw this on slashdot some time early this year/last year. One senior guy in Epson posted saying basicly that any government wanting to know who's printer the codes correlated to, would have a hell of a fight with a major printer corp on their hands. Although they did do it, not once had any printer company actually told a government which codes correlated to which printers.

    So, I figure there are bigger things to worry about.
     
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  6. kickarse

    kickarse What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah its mainly for helping law enforcement when someone kidnaps a person and uses a printer or similar matters...
     
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  7. ou7blaze

    ou7blaze sensational.

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    Woah I didn't know that they did that to each page. :jawdrop:
     
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  8. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    How silly is that, everyone knows you cut out letters from a newspaper if you want to send a random letter ;)
     
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  9. specofdust

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    They do, its extraordinarily small, but the point is, according to this epson guy, although its there no-one that he knew of, worldwide, had ever been allowed to use it.
     
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  10. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well assuming it's on the same place on the page every time, just put some scotch tape over that before printing and pull it off when you're done. Tinfoil hat for paper :)
     
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  11. WireFrame

    WireFrame <b>PermaBanned</b>

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    yeh. Cos your words won't be printed on the tape, will they? ;)
     
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