thepompe@ttrpg.networkBanned to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agoPrinters leave a watermark on each page indicating the exact printer that it came from. Are there any other examples of these privacy violations that aren't common knowledge?message-squaremessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squarePrinters leave a watermark on each page indicating the exact printer that it came from. Are there any other examples of these privacy violations that aren't common knowledge?thepompe@ttrpg.networkBanned to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agomessage-square37linkfedilinkfile-text
One thing I’m concerned about is recording equipment leaving identifiable information without us knowing about it.
minus-squareArdens@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·20 days agoIt’s not specific to USA… They do it everywhere - with color-printers. Don’t know if they do it with B/W printers. They claim it’s to track people who try to print money, but if it were, then they wouldn’t really do it on laser printers too… If you print a photo on a regular paper, and then shine an UV-light on it, you can see it. It’s mostly small yellow dots.
minus-squareमुक्त@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·20 days agoThey use yellow ink for that in colour printers.
minus-squareमुक्त@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·19 days agoYou wrote more, much; but left this to inference. I highlighted one bit: yellow.
It’s not specific to USA… They do it everywhere - with color-printers. Don’t know if they do it with B/W printers.
They claim it’s to track people who try to print money, but if it were, then they wouldn’t really do it on laser printers too…
If you print a photo on a regular paper, and then shine an UV-light on it, you can see it. It’s mostly small yellow dots.
They use yellow ink for that in colour printers.
Did I not write that?
You wrote more, much; but left this to inference.
I highlighted one bit: yellow.