Government Tracking You with Secret Code in Color Printers

[FastEddy]

Interesting......
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/1538

 

[Got Nitro?]

Intresting,the goverment get's away with too much poop,but yet this is a good idea,there cutting down on counterfitin wich will save us money.

 

[beason]

they have been able to pinpoint wheich printer printed a document for ages.. but they had to have a sample from the printer.. i guess this is on every page and is the serial for the printer.. so they dont need a sample

 

[Tweak]

Exactly. They could pinpoint the printer, It just took some work. I betcha sales of these printers drop pretty f'in drasticly in the next year or so.

 

[msly]

Do you hear that?

 

[beason]

hugs old ass laserjet 4 and deskjet 960c.. looks around for "mib"

 

[FastEddy]

I betcha sales of these printers drop pretty f'in drasticly in the next year or so.

I don't think so......
The only people that need to worry are the ones that want to do illegal things.

Most people don't know but the P4 chip in your computer sends out its serial number.

Its kind of like the serial number on a gun or your license plate number. Neither one of theses has resulted in the decline of sales.......

People that want to do bad things will find a way to do them, the rest of us will never know the difference.

 

[digger]

Yeah "big brother" is watching and we are funding it. But if ya think about it... As cheap as printers are getting, and if a criminal knew that it could be traced, a smart one would lose it.

Amazing how far technology has come in the last few years, though. I'm sitting here talking on an rc forum on a $700 wallyworld computer. Maybe 10 years ago would have been thousands of dollars for one like it. Hell they had just got away from ms-dos to windows 95 then.

 

[msly]

You can turn off the broadcast of your unique serial number on your processor chip through the bios. They were forced to give you that choice before the chip hit the market.

 

[retarded pilot]

Hell they had just got away from ms-dos to windows 95 then.

there were a few releases between dos & windows 95


quick derail, ....anyone remember the days of irq conflicts & memmaker

**shuders**

 

[CorradoPsi]

quick derail, ....anyone remember the days of irq conflicts & memmaker
**shuders**

yes, unfortunitly. i can remember using memmaker so that i could play games that were so small they fit on 10 or less floppy disks. pathetic.

 

[Tweak]

Most laptop computers are actually coming off the lines with a type of "lowjac" pre installed on them. the software is readily available at CompUSA and Office depot's everywhere. Things like this have always been going on and it never really had a toll on anyone beside fundamentaly keeping everyone safer in the process. They wanna bug your inter-office memos, let em. It's in everyone's best interest.

 

[retarded pilot]

They wanna bug your inter-office memos, let em. It's in everyone's best interest.

NO WAY ...