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EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers

Posted by Hemos on from the flagging-them-out dept.

jason writes "In preparation for a possible legal challenge, The Electronic Frontiers Foundation is requesting your help in identifying which printers are embedding traceable information in the documents they produce. Printer manufactures added this technology under persuasion from the government inorder to help combat counterfeiting operations, however this technology defeats the presumed anonymity most people expect from the documents they print."

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  1. Re:Um... by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RTFA... The technology adds pixel-sized yellow dots about every inch.

  2. paying in cash? by drxenos · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What if I buy a printer at, say, Staples, buy cash and do not send in the registration? How can they track me then? I think the worse that would happen is they would know that two particular documents originated from the same printer.

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  3. Re:Do as I say, not as I do by bedroll · · Score: 1, Redundant
    According to a quick search you got it right.

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasj eff169586.html

  4. Yellow by lseltzer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So yellow toner/ink should run out faster than you'd think?