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5. Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You? by EFForg in computers

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 12:02 AM

Mar 2017

"Imagine that every time you print a document, it automatically includes a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and, potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from a spy movie, right"

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your-Printer-Spying-on-/

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Trump's Taxes... Do Copiers Leave Secret Codes... [View all] eniwetok Mar 2017 OP

Maybe there was a microwave oven in the copy room Poiuyt Mar 2017 #1

with a camera inside???? eniwetok Mar 2017 #2

I don't know about wiretapping them... eniwetok Mar 2017 #4

I suppose that could work both ways eniwetok Mar 2017 #7

Networked printers also track the IPs of the requesting device... haele Mar 2017 #8