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MetalMan88
Posts: 11/232 |
Welll... I have two Laserjet IIP printers... heh heh heh...
And a CanonS300, but all we print are pictures and school documents, with the school documents being put in folders tat trace back to us anyway.
So I'm not worried. |
Lenina
Posts: 12/32 |
There was an episode of Law & Order that used something along these lines. They were able to trace a piece of printed paper back to the manufacturer, which only provided the paper to schools. Then at the school, the detectives were are to trace it to a certain computer. It was sort of freaky. I don |
Cymoro
Posts: 1515/2216 |
Leg: It's near impossible for someone to get your identification and location of residence from a $5 that you spent somewhere.
Also, registering your products supports communism =D |
alte Hexe
Posts: 1770/5458 |
Cash is untraceable. If you keep all of your money in bills and coin, after about two circulations it becomes completely "lost" to the system. #1 reason why the gov. puts money into Interac and other plastic money programs. |
Tamarin Calanis
Posts: 160/1802 |
Umm... Leg? If you're in an airport, they know where you are anyway.  Probably misworded that.
Anyway, I think it's bullshit, really. But hey, I never print things anyway. And besides, we have inkjet printers, I think... |
Legion
Posts: 3091/5657 |
Originally posted by Cymoro
Besides, cash = untraceable.
Not true. I'm sure you know of the strips they put in $5 dollar bills and above? Well, those are scanned in a lot of places you go but most noticeably, airports. Pass through a metal detector and they know exactly how much cash you have, and where you are. |
Cymoro
Posts: 1514/2216 |
What you do is simply switch the color chambers around and, in a program like Photoshop, change the colors accordingly so that when you print, it prints right, but the police will be looking for the wrong color.
Besides, cash = untraceable. |
Ran-chan
Posts: 5382/12781 |
It |
Tarale
Posts: 830/2720 |
Saw this on Slashdot very recently, and it doesn't surprise me at all. Doesn't surprise me that it's been going on for a long time either.
The fact that Lexmark's printer drivers spy on you surprised me slightly more, but when I think about it, I don't know why I'm surprised at all.
Bleh, I miss the old HP printers. |
Ran-chan
Posts: 5380/12781 |
We have a 6 year old printer and we |
Skreename
Posts: 49/107 |
I'd think it'd be actually not too bad a thing. One more step that can be used for verifying something actually comes from a certain source. And if someone getting a hold of some printed document and being able to trace it to you would allow them to easily steal your identity... You need to seriously rethink what you're doing. |
Ailure
Posts: 6252/11162 |
I have a laser printer, an B&W one. So heh i'm not really worried.
Besides, I doubt HP haves my home address. Unless the shop gives out that kind of information to them in Sweden. Hell we can contact HP and ask them if they have any information about us and we can change it... if it's wrong.  |
Kefka
Posts: 2366/3392 |
Pretty soon, Big Brother is going to ban all those documents that have too big of words on them 
And then... and then... no one will be allowed to read at all soon... and then... and then... we'll be watching executions on TV, and having bombshells fly all around us without a care... and uh... I'll join Big Brother 
This is some scary shit though. |
neotransotaku
Posts: 1758/4016 |
with typewriters, it was a byproduct of the design. something like that can't be helped since there really isn't another way to design the mechanics. This, however, has nothing to do with the mechanics. It is another step in the process that is essentially optional. Removing that extra signature feature does not change what gets printed as a whole. |
NSNick
Posts: 1360/3875 |
This is just like typewriters, every typewriter was a little bit different from another due to the mechanics, so it was possible to tell what came from which typewriter. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 1723/5458 |
They said laser printers my friend.
I'm just saddened with the passing of my beloved vintage Dot Matrix black and white printer. It was truly a beautiful piece of work, it kept going after all the (sexual) abuse I put it through...Printing off pornography just to see how funny it would look on that printer.
But this is a serious intrusion into people's privacy. And it should be rectified, because if private finance documents are traced through some database cracking, people could easily increase the amount of identification theft there is. |
Smallhacker
Posts: 950/2273 |
Oh my god! That's scary! I'm happy that I've "only" got a black/white laser printer. :/ |
neotransotaku
Posts: 1757/4016 |
Documents secretly encoded by color printers
In a nutshell, depending on your printer, information about where it comes and what computer was used to print from is written into the page...basically, when you print a page, an almost "transparent" fingerprint is also put on it...
scary if you think about it...
so, question is, should something like this be done or not? |
