Your printer is spying on you!

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

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MIT”s Media Lab has started a website that helps consumers contact the manufacturer of their printer so they can request that “tracking dots” be eliminated from their machines.

The dots hold information about the serial number, make and model of your printer and were placed there at the behest of the Secret Service—supposedly to help locate counterfeiters. Seeing Yellow, a project by MIT’s Media Lab, claims that after contacting the printer manufacturer about how to disable the tracking dots, the Secret Service showed up at one consumer’s door asking questions. Uh, scary.

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Yikes... That is really scary. Don't ya think?

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

F k, no my printer.

Is good that I keep that b ch disconnected then.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Gonna call to have it turned off, just so the secret service show up.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

The matrix has us....

Mayumi · **Posted:** Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:56 am

LOLLS

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

It's off pretty much all the time anyways, I have this huge color laser and it makes so much noise.

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

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Is Your Printer Spying On You?
By Meg Marco July 13, 2007

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

^ That doesn't mean that... everyone heard about it. xD

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

This has been around for awhile but somehow only becomes a concern when the problem with NSA did...lol media freaking people out

This was started to fight counterfeit money and would allow law enforcement to trace it down to the buyer

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