Your printer is in cahoots

KDR_11k · Oct 2005

Grab your tinfoil hat

Laserprinters mark documents with unique identifiers that could be used to track you down. While the Secret Service claims to use this only for tracking counterfeiters, it could easily be abused for tracking dissenters through their leaflets.

jzero · Oct 2005

My dissent is so cosmic and pataphysical that no one in the US Government will EVER realize how subversive I am, no matter how many color copies they get.

Foo.

/jzero

Ninjas · Oct 2005

Jzero, you made 7 of those?

Yeah. The Holywood anti-drug propaganda, printer tracking. Really, there is almost nothing I would put past the US government.

Neo_God · Oct 2005

JZero, There is something very enjoyable about that comic.

Though I don't mind, I don't even use a laser printer.

KDR_11k · Oct 2005

Well, for mass printing you'll have to because using an inkjet for that will cost you a fortune.

Mark Dygert · Oct 2005

Doesn't everyone keep a printing press in thier basement for just such an occasion? My second job was cleaning and running printing presses one of the "pressmen" collected old printing presses, yeah he was a wierd old guy.

Your printer is in cahoots

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