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But what's the incentive for printer manufacturers to do it at all? It isn't mandated by any law. Some three letter agency comes to them with offer they can't r
by garaetjjte 5y ago
But what's the incentive for printer manufacturers to do it at all? It isn't mandated by any law. Some three letter agency comes to them with offer they can't refuse? Or they give them bazillions of dollars in exchange?
- amalcon 5y agoThe incentive is that they'd rather do it on their own, than be forced into doing it. Adding the fingerprinting dots on their own gives the manufacturers control over how the fingerprinting works, lets them do it in the most inexpensive way, and means they don't need to submit proof of the fingerprinting feature.
- shadowgovt 5y agoIt also likely involves a behind the scenes tit for tat. How many government provision contracts has Hewlett-Packard closed?
- Forge36 5y ago"if we implement this the FBI won't be visiting us to ask for help as often" That's probably enough incentive for most to do it once known or suggested
- magpi3 5y agoIt would be an unbelievable scandal if it came out that the U.S. government was forcing all U.S. printer companies to do something like this.
- tirpen 5y agoWould it really? Things like this are revealed all the time, half the public doesn't care and the other half already know we are living in a surveilance dystopia and are not surprised about it.
- magpi3 5y agoTo _force_ a U.S. company to do something like this would be a behavior on the level of an autocratic nation like China. Yes, I think it would be a very huge deal. I imagine somehow the government sweetens the pot for big printer manufacturers.
- sneak 5y agoYou don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.