Your Printer is Spying On You
Source: http://www.ebcak.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/spy.jpg
I found this to be…sad. Not only do we have to worry about “trusted computing” (read more here) from Windows OS, now the printers are in on the deal. Sheesh. Of course, privacy is an illusion. Repeat after me…privacy is an illusion.
Your color laser printer is quietly encoding all your printed documents with it’s own serial and model number so all documents printed on your personal private printer can be tracked back to you. If you registered for warranty protection on that printer when you bought it, the manufacturer can tell that a printer you purchased made printouts of specific web pages or photos or bank statements if they have the physical piece of paper from your printer.
This is very likely to have been requested by Treasury to track photocopied paper money or legal documents which shouldn’t be copied (like birth certificates) from being used illegally to obtain fake ID’s and track bad guys who use those types of nefarious techniques to do illegal stuff.
Source: PrivacyNotes.com
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