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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

www.eff.org/...r-do-not-display-tracking-dots

ITGS businessandemployment Printers privacy

shared by dr tech on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series
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      dr tech on 23 Nov 09
       
      The IT System is printers - and how they place yellow dots to assign dates and times...
  • dr tech on 23 Nov 09
     
    Ooh this is interesting - how printers are being used to trace us and information.
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Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots - 0 views

getpocket.com/...nters-add-secret-tracking-dots

ITGS security printer privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 06 Jan 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Jan 20
     
    "At that point, experts began taking a closer look at the document, now publicly available on the web. They discovered something else of interest: yellow dots in a roughly rectangular pattern repeated throughout the page. They were barely visible to the naked eye, but formed a coded design. After some quick analysis, they seemed to reveal the exact date and time that the pages in question were printed: 06:20 on 9 May, 2017 - at least, this is likely to be the time on the printer's internal clock at that moment. The dots also encode a serial number for the printer. "
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