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Probably not today, with all the new features, but maybe earlier, e.g. when color inkjets became mainstream and for small denomination bills (no one checks wate
by ptero 9y ago
Probably not today, with all the new features, but maybe earlier, e.g. when color inkjets became mainstream and for small denomination bills (no one checks watermarks when accepting old $1 bills).
That said, I suspect this mis-feature is being forced on manufacturers now ostensibly for anti-counterfeiting, but in reality to enable tracking for other 3-letter agencies :(
- daxorid 9y agoWhat are the consequences of telling NSA "no"? Is there any law that permits the USG to compel any action, other than those legal requests pursuant to an active investigation, on the part of private companies?
- JackFr 9y agoHow about the the General Services Administration saying "We won't buy, nor allow contractors to use, any printers that don't comply." If I were a manufacturer, that would be compelling.
- cosinetau 9y agoThat would be too easy though. Since we're acting as the toughest game in town, why not also bully people?
- nobodyorother 9y agoNSLs? With them, any action is intimately related to active investigations, because they're completely without oversight.
- rbritton 9y agoThe closest I know of is the All Writs Act [0] that surfaced during the FBI vs Apple situation resulting from the San Bernadino shooting. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act
- fnordfnordfnord 9y agoIf you're not squeaky clean, then they do to you what they did to Joseph Naccio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
- fivestar 9y agothe government in our tech. Lovely. I knew about it before, but this drives home the point that tech people need to work harder and value freedom more than we do today. Otherwise we end up in a police state dystopia. We need our telecom back, our Internet, our printers, all of it. To hell with all the "but muh terrorism" excuses.