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If your printer is on a network, it can 'phone home' in most cases. They now know which IP address the printer lives behind. Get compromising document > look up
by vacri 9y ago
If your printer is on a network, it can 'phone home' in most cases. They now know which IP address the printer lives behind. Get compromising document > look up serial number from dots > look up IP address from serial number > get address for IP from ISP (through means fair or foul). Payment option is irrelevant.
- kazinator 9y agoIn those "most cases" when it's not blocked from doing so by your firewall. If you were paranoid enough to pay cash for a printer somewhere far from home because of the tracking issue, you will probably block it from sending messages outside of your LAN.