Printer identification dots
Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-01-13
The Electronic Frontier Foundation made me aware of printer manufactures including machine identification code technology on all printed pages. These codes appears as small, invisible pink or yellow dots. They can be revealed when viewed in a microscope with a blue LED emitted light.
I had not even heard of, nor believed that such technology where included with laser printers for regular business and private consumers. I am seriously shocked over how much secret information there is about every each and one of us! Such as tracking technologies implemented in normal consumer gods that we are not even made aware of…
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