EFF Claim Your Printer is Tracking What You Print

[FrostyBoy]

EFF, the Electronic Fronier Foundation, have claimed that they have broken a secret code which some laser printers print with every page.

EFF researchers have found that a pattern of yellow dots is encoded in every printout from certain model printers by Xerox, Canon, HP and others. The dots encode such information as the date and time as well as the serial number of the printer.

The EFF claims the US Secret Service have admitted that they encoded this information in a bid to track counterfeiters, but the EFF claims the technology "makes it easier for governments to find dissenters".

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

So?

[Kuciwalker]

[Urban Ranger]

Note to self: watch out for yellow dots.

[Kuciwalker]

Oh yeah, you would have to worry, being in China.

[alva]

Snoopy, that's nothing new, though I really don't like it either.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Oh yeah, you would have to worry, being in China.

When did the US Secret Service begin to work for the PRC?

[Kuciwalker]

Since when can the PRC's police not see yellow dots?

[Whaleboy]

Yellow dots? What about monotone printers?

[Az]

Print once - xerox to kill yellow dots of doom times 4000.