« Amazon | Main | My favorite things Rhode Island »
Goodbye Samizdat
Printers have a special place in the history of liberty. It is very disturbing, therefore, to learn that documents printed on color printers from Xerox, HP and other manufacturers contain secret government codes identifying the time, date and serial number of the printer. No, I am not kidding. These codes can be read under magnifying glass and special light. The Electronic Frontier Foundation broke one of the codes and is pursuing more information.
Would the Berlin Wall have fallen if East European governments had access to this kind of technology twenty years ago?
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on October 20, 2005 at 07:37 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c66b253ef00e5508353f38833
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Goodbye Samizdat:
» Your Printer, Tool of the Man from Emergent Chaos
(Posted by Adam) The EFF has done some great work on how high resolution color printers are embedding tracers in every document they print. It's at "DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide." I'd call them high quality printers, but how... [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 20, 2005 5:36:10 PM
» I Thought This Was Just A Lame Conspiracy Theory at First... from Coyote Blog
I had seen some Internet posts on this before, but I thought it was from the Aliens were behind the 9/11 attacks crowd. But it does appear to really be Big Brother at work: The pages coming out of your [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 21, 2005 1:39:30 PM
» I Thought This Was Just A Lame Conspiracy Theory at First... from Coyote Blog
I had seen some Internet posts on this before, but I thought it was from the Aliens were behind the 9/11 attacks crowd. But it does appear to really be Big Brother at work: The pages coming out of your [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 21, 2005 1:40:58 PM
» Your Printer, Tool of the Man from Emergent Chaos
The EFF has done some great work on how high resolution color printers are embedding tracers in every document they print. It's at "DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide." I'd call them high quality printers, but how could I? They... [Read More]
Tracked on Nov 1, 2005 11:02:48 PM
