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Is Your Printer Spying On You?



Bob BLU wrote:

>At 12:57 PM 10/29/2005, Rich Braun wrote:
>  
>
>>a privacy-rights issue in a relatively balanced
>>way:  the one about serial-number encoding in hardcopies produced by
>>off-the-shelf color laser printers.  (In fact I had not heard of this until
>>Bray's article.
>>
Privacy indeed has become a big issue in the information age.  My 
question is whether this encoding is performed in software by the driver 
or by the hardware?






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