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haele

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8. Networked printers also track the IPs of the requesting device...

Reply to eniwetok (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:13 AM

Mar 2017

So, if you know the printer, you can probably figure out who made the print-out. Similar to a disk or thumb drive - or emailed files. No matter how you spoof it, there are still traces to an actual device.

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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

No, but printers do. Copiers are so pre-computers. Most are printers now. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #3

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

People go into a shop and place thumb drive in the machine with spy code, come back later and take L. Coyote Mar 2017 #6

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

Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You? by EFForg in computers Cadfael Mar 2017 #5