[wplug] Printer tracking dots

[Zachary Uram]

Scary. Big Brother is watching!

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:24 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What printer does RMS use?
>
> On 02/24/2015 12:22 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> > According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the US government has
> > convinced laser printer manufacturers such as Xerox to embed tiny,
> > imperceptible tracking dots into every printed page.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/v/izMGMsIZK4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&[1]
> >
> > The EFF sells a blue LED keychain that claims to reveal these dots. I
> > bought one, and it arrived yesterday. I tried it out on a test page from
> one
> > of our Xerox multifunction printers at work, and sure enough, the dots
> > were there. I then tried to see if there were any dots on pages from the
> > Brother inkjet printer I keep in my office, and there were none.
> >
> > If these laser printers had open source firmware, it would probably be a
> > simple matter to remove the offending code. This, to me, shows how
> > important it is for /every/ aspect of a technology device to be open
> source.
> >
> > There's your interesting thought for the day.
> >
> >
> > *Justin Smith*
> > GNU/Linux System Administrator
> >
> > /"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
> not;
> > nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will
> > not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
> world is
> > full of educated derelicts."/
> >
> > /-Calvin Coolidge/
> >
> > --------
> > [1] https://www.youtube.com/v/izMGMsIZK4U&hl=en_US&fs=1&
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