[Tfug] More Big Brother

[keith smith]

Interestingly the MIT blog says in part "However, when someone called up their printer manufacturer more recently to ask about how they might turn the tracking information in their printed pages off, they were paid a visit by the U.S. Secret Service who wanted to know why he didn't want to be tracked."

Now, how does big brother get such a hold on business?



Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:09:08AM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:28:46AM -0700, keith smith wrote:
> > Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You
> > 
> > Did you know that many (in fact, most) color laser printers are spying on you whenever you print a document?
> > 
> > http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35239
> 
> Must be a slow news day over there at Yahoo, huh?  EFF was talking
> about this back in 2005.  http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

Ah!  This is why this is back in the news: an org from MIT has
resurrected the issue.
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/compcult/archives/000118.html
http://seeingyellow.com/

Would have been nice if Yahoo had explained the context rather than
just trying to get eyeballs by fanning the flames of paranoia.

C.

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