More Big Brother

[Bryan O'Neal]

This was started as an anti counterfeiting measure way back in the day,
and on high end machines you have to present credentials to purchase
them and the contract states you must notify the manufacturer if the
printer changes location or owners.  I just purchased a $35K Xerox and
can not tell it even has a marking, but I know it is their ;)
Supposedly it even marks what the date and time the print occurred.

Lower end machines, the kind you would purchase with cash, typically
only track down to the lot any way, much like a cop can tell what
conveyance store sold a particular bottle of bud and roughly when it was
sold by tracing the batch numbers.  

Morel of the story, if your going to send a terrorist manifesto out then
print it out at a busy Kinko's during winter prior to its release (so
the fact your wearing gloves is not suspicious) and deal with the fact
it will be traced to that side of town (that Kinko's), but it was long
enough ago (at least 3, preferably six months) their should be littlie
evidence left you were their...  Oh and don't forget they can track the
envelopes to the store they were sold at, so purchase then near the
Kinko's, and don't touch anything, work in a fiber free environment, use
self adhesive stamps and envelopes (again, purchased near the Kinko's),
mail them out of a public postal box that you approaches on foot wearing
a decent costume (near the Kinko's) and don't ever go back to that
Kinko's.   Repeat until captured, preferably before you bomb the white
house.


On that note has any one else seen the mass proliferation of counterfeit
one dollar bills lately?  I stopped using cash for a while because I
felt bad passing them on and hated the loss of monetary value by
trashing them.



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:04 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: More Big Brother

Exactly.  Forensic marking only works if the person who bought the 
printer at the store pays for it using some means that can be tracked or

registers the printer for the warranty.  So it's easy to get around.

Pay with cash.

Don't send in the warranty card.  Of course you do risk the printer 
breaking down.

Buy only the printer.  If you buy something else and send in the 
warranty card for that, it gives them a way to track you.

Buy a used printer, but remember to pay cash for it.

Dan Lund wrote:
> Interesting... I wonder how this will effect the used-printer market?
:P
> 
> On 7/20/07, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You
>>
>> Did you know that many (in fact, most) color laser printers are
spying on
>> you whenever you print a document?
>>
>> http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35239


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