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Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:36 pm
by *BlackFox
MIT”s Media Lab has started a website that helps consumers contact the manufacturer of their printer so they can request that “tracking dots” be eliminated from their machines.
The dots hold information about the serial number, make and model of your printer and were placed there at the behest of the Secret Service—supposedly to help locate counterfeiters. Seeing Yellow, a project by MIT’s Media Lab, claims that after contacting the printer manufacturer about how to disable the tracking dots, the Secret Service showed up at one consumer’s door asking questions. Uh, scary.
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Yikes... That is really scary. Don't ya think?
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:16 pm
by Love
F k, no my printer.
Is good that I keep that b ch disconnected then.
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:48 pm
by Tasdik
Gonna call to have it turned off, just so the secret service show up.
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:30 am
by BuDo
The matrix has us....
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:56 am
by Mayumi
LOLLS
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:59 am
by omier
It's off pretty much all the time anyways, I have this huge color laser and it makes so much noise.
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:06 am
by DarkJackal
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
By Meg Marco July 13, 2007
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:20 pm
by *BlackFox
^ That doesn't mean that... everyone heard about it. xD
Re: Your printer is spying on you!
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:48 pm
by Gaigemasta
This has been around for awhile but somehow only becomes a concern when the problem with NSA did...lol media freaking people out
This was started to fight counterfeit money and would allow law enforcement to trace it down to the buyer