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Your Printer Could Be (Helping) Spy On You!

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By iamdarkyoshi
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HA! The jokes on them, I don't even own a printer.

 

I hand write all of my ransom notes. 

 you would be better off stealing a printer

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This ain't new. I've read this before. That's why I only use laser monochrome for home and then use work/school/commercial place printer for anything colored.

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That's not really news, mate, I've known about this for years. I don't think it's a problem because no one knows what printer you own anyway. But if they can prove you falsified documents with it (they'd have to suspect it was you and get a warrant to see what printer you have because they'd have no way to know otherwise), well, it kind of is your own fault.

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Printers are the work of Satan anyways.

It's too bad printers are one of the necessary evils of this world.

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What do you think it should be?

Something like "Some printers include hidden identifiers on page"? Not sure if that sounds good as a title though.

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For a comparison a lot of cameras leave their serial number on every picture taken with the EXIF data. Of course that can be stripped pretty easily...

 

 

I guess I just don't see how this would be a big deal to anyone.

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I believe it was mentioned in an ep of NCIS a few seasons ago...

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I write all my encoded messages with invisible ink and use a messaging bird.

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