Posted on 10/18/2005 6:54:07 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
While I abhore this, I really don't anticipate publishing any clandestine stuff. If I print it, everyone will know that I did it.
I'll say it again:
If this technology did not exist, and you printed something on which you wished to remain anonymous, there are other technologies/techniques whereby others could figure out the attribution.
I'll be happy with a little cabin in the woods... wouldn't mind having a Porsche Speedster, or an E-type Jag, in the driveway, though...
Minor detail. Have you looked around lately? How many times a day do you have you photo taken? Can you drive down the street without the gov knowing your route? Cell phone tracking, photo tracking, store security tracking...nothing new here...move along.
Why would they run around hunting this down?
After all, if they wanted to (and could get a warrant to)dust every letter sent through the mail for fingerprints, they could do that. If they wanted to collect DNA off every licked stamp or envelope, they could do that. If they wanted to record every cell phone call you make, they could do that.
Why would they do any of those things? There aren't enough agents in the system NOW to track the bad guys we DO know about.
See, that's where this whole freaking out over this gets really murky to me.
I used a Doc12 daily in a small business for several years. It's not like we sent weekly reports to the government. Sheesh.
But if someone had used our equipment to do something illegal...you know they would have ended up on our doorstep one way or another. There are a thousand ways to trace it back...it's just that this allows that process to be a lot more time-efficient and therefore more effective. Big deal
I just think the hysteria over this is really....misplaced. But perhaps I'm missing something.
"I just think the hysteria over this is really....misplaced. But perhaps I'm missing something."
I concur.
Couldn't tell ya. But if I could, would you really want to know? ;-)
Uhm...no.
Thanks for the hard work so the rest of us can...goof off.
Probably far more than others given the environment I work in. I have card-in twice just to get to work, and pass quite a few cameras. But I chose that.
This is bad mainly because of the danger to free, anonymous speech.
Free enterprise is doing what the Gov could not and that is tracking our mevements. The town I live in has installed high resolution cameras on each traffic light. You can litterally track a driver/car anywhere in the city. You know each stop and it's duration. But, the sheeple don't care.
Very interesting... glad to have read this, even though I don’t plan to counterfeit anything soon.
It looks like the old punch card from an old system 3 computer.
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