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It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufact
by droithomme 15y ago
It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers.
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots.
However, there are several printers who use tracking dots who it seems have done so of their own prerogative and not because the SS asked them to. Notably Dell, Epson, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG, Panasonic, Savin and Toshiba are doing it voluntarily or because of contact with some other agency.
Tracking dot free printers may be obtained from Samsung or Okidata, the two Korean companies. Clearly years of living under a military dictatorship and now being a free country have had an effect on what Korean companies are willing to do for government security apparatchiks.
- tedunangst 15y agoWhen was South Korea a military dictatorship? [Oh, nm, learned something new today.]
- nmridul 15y agoCuriously enough, none of the Samsung's printer show the tracking dots as per the list at https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d.... Not sure if that means they do not track or they use some other means to track ?