Folks,
If I said that I thought that color laser printers incorporate secret
codes in every page they print that lets government agencies identify
the printer - and potentially, the person who used it, you'd probably
check my hat for tin foil.
But it's not me, it's the EFF who says it: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/
printers/docucolor/, so check *their* hats for tin foil, if you must.
If you have access to a Xerox DocuColor printer, they even have a
decoder page that lets you figure out what it is that the printer is
telling the feds. (Pretty much just the time and date that the page
was printed and the serial number of the printer.)
Still, I hadn't heard about it, and it sounded so far-fetched that it
reminded me of the '80s joke about Japanese photocopiers that send
copies of US tech company secrets back to Japan...
Dave
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