[antiRepublicrat]

Update to earlier post.

EFF has cracked the code for Xerox. Anybody can now know the print date and serial number of the Xerox color laser printer you use to print anything. Other brands coming soon.

So, FReepers, be careful of what you print.

[kjam22]

Paging Michael Rivero. Michael Rivero.... please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[frogjerk]

What about a copy of a certain memo from Kinkos in Texas? I wonder if this can be tracked. That would be the icing on the cake!

[Chickensoup]

bump

[boris]

I can see the fnords...

[frogjerk]

Track this!

[ErnBatavia]

"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.

I dunno...sounds a bit tinfoilesque to me.

[yoe]

If you are not doing anything illegal, this should not bother you.

Those printing money, drivers license, social security cards, false IDs etc. should worry a lot.....

[BIRDS]

Just avoid laser printers, from the look of things that are discussed here.

[x5452]

Liberals are going to hate this. Everytime they print fake documents aledging some famous republican was gay we can trace exactly what printer they used to forge em.

[BIRDS]

Seems that the issue is that laser printers are potentially (and are, actually) used by counterfitters and other document forgers to do their dirty deeds.

Using an inkjet is fine for most printed documents otherwise, for most people. Laser printers are great for profound b&w documents, so it also seems it's a case of color lasers being appealing to the wrong clients for their wrongful deeds.

Most people don't have all that much to protect that isn't already knowable to those who need to know, if/when there is or isn't criminal behavior going on. I don't LIKE the idea of being spied upon and read up on -- not at all -- but I'd just avoid color lasers and use an inkjet and not engage in forging documents!

Or use a color laser with the knowledge that what you're printing is potentially viewable to others. Everything at Kinko's has been for a while now (not at all private).

[RedCell]

Why do I think the ACLU might have something to say about this?

[Trust but Verify]

So, FReepers, be careful of what you print.

I'm sure the SS will be all over that recipe for cream of mushroom soup I printed yesterday. Needless to say, I'm not worried.

[Lazamataz]

Amazing, scary, and Orwellian.

It appears 1984 was not a warning, it was a training manual.

[pageonetoo]

...and don't use your gps enabled cellphone, nor your new gps equipped car, with dialup capabilities, and OnStar type stuff. Oh, yeah, the black boxes are to track crashes...

[Atlas Sneezed]

I guess that like guns, it would be smart to buy them privately, with cash. As of yet, it is not illegal to buy printers without government knowledge. When Hillary makes it illegal, then we'll know for sure which way we are headed.

[newsgatherer]

bump for thursday

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

good reason for a manual typewriter, 1934 Royal works fine.........

[The KG9 Kid]

bump

[mysterio]

Don't worry! Once we get a Republican majority, this kind of of Orwellian big brother BS will come to an immediate stop!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump and self-ping for later archiving.