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Monday, July 25, 2005
Is your printer spying on you?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports on their further investigation of a story that first appeared online Nov. 22, 2004 by PC World.". . . several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce. Governments, including the United States, already use the hidden markings to track counterfeiters."
The recent story is here.
