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Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You?
An anonymous reader writes " Engadget is reporting that
'Lexmark, makers of printers and scanners, has been caught monitoring users' printer, scanning, and ink cartridge usage.'" Newsgroup comp.periphs.printers readers noticed the software; the Engadget report says that "Lexmark say they're just tracking printer and cartridge usage, but the registration information and packets being sent say otherwise."
I don't think anyone or anything could stand the sight of me before clothes or caffeine.
Mix the failings of Usenet with the shortcomings of the World Wide Web and the result is slashdot.
Just as long as my Dvd burner isn't monitoring what I am burning...
The trouble began when I had to buy new cartridges, I bought 3 in a row, and they were all empty, what the hell is up with that.
You are an engineer for [evil printer company] and are told to increase profits 50%. So you increase i=20 in the cartrige purge program.
Sadly, the joke, in this case, would be:
In Soviet Russia, you monitor your peripherals!
I recommend a pencil and paper. One caveat is to always use a single sheet of paper instead of a pad though so spies cant find out what you wrote by rubbing graphite over the pad. Also tell the recipient to eat the page after they have read it.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I guess we now know what the 'Plus' part is. :)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I prefer the Leeloo Dallas Multipass.....
Can they track why their craptastic printers keep breaking all the time? Never buying one of them again.
Imagine a perl script to generate spoof statistics. Imagine a million ./ readers running the script as a cron job.
They'd soon stop trying to spy on the users, if the data was all that everyone keep on printing the same url all the time, something with "goat" in the URL...