Oh and one more...
Q: Why do I feel like somebody's watching me?
A: http://lwn.net/Articles/156319/
--- A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen. --- http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ http://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dotsReceived on Thu Mar 20 02:31:41 2008
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