On 7/25/07, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > This was started as an anti counterfeiting measure way back in the day, > and on high end machines you have to present credentials to purchase > them and the contract states you must notify the manufacturer if the > printer changes location or owners. I just purchased a $35K Xerox and > can not tell it even has a marking, but I know it is their ;) > Supposedly it even marks what the date and time the print occurred. > > Lower end machines, the kind you would purchase with cash, typically > only track down to the lot any way, much like a cop can tell what > conveyance store sold a particular bottle of bud and roughly when it was > sold by tracing the batch numbers. > > Morel of the story, if your going to send a terrorist manifesto out then > print it out at a busy Kinko's during winter prior to its release (so > the fact your wearing gloves is not suspicious) and deal with the fact > it will be traced to that side of town (that Kinko's), but it was long > enough ago (at least 3, preferably six months) their should be littlie > evidence left you were their... Oh and don't forget they can track the > envelopes to the store they were sold at, so purchase then near the > Kinko's, and don't touch anything, work in a fiber free environment, use > self adhesive stamps and envelopes (again, purchased near the Kinko's), > mail them out of a public postal box that you approaches on foot wearing > a decent costume (near the Kinko's) and don't ever go back to that > Kinko's. Repeat until captured, preferably before you bomb the white > house. > > > On that note has any one else seen the mass proliferation of counterfeit > one dollar bills lately? I stopped using cash for a while because I > felt bad passing them on and hated the loss of monetary value by > trashing them. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jim > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:04 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: More Big Brother > > Exactly. Forensic marking only works if the person who bought the > printer at the store pays for it using some means that can be tracked or > > registers the printer for the warranty. So it's easy to get around. > > Pay with cash. > > Don't send in the warranty card. Of course you do risk the printer > breaking down. > > Buy only the printer. If you buy something else and send in the > warranty card for that, it gives them a way to track you. > > Buy a used printer, but remember to pay cash for it. > > Dan Lund wrote: > > Interesting... I wonder how this will effect the used-printer market? > :P > > > > On 7/20/07, keith smith wrote: > >> Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You > >> > >> Did you know that many (in fact, most) color laser printers are > spying on > >> you whenever you print a document? > >> > >> http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35239 > > -- > [...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > > On that note has any one else seen the mass proliferation of counterfeit > one dollar bills lately? I stopped using cash for a while because I > felt bad passing them on and hated the loss of monetary value by > trashing them. I haven't been paying attention. I probably would have trouble telling them apart, unless the tiny little threads in the fabric of the paper (in use for decades now) were missing. > I felt bad passing them on My take on that is: easy come, easy go. If I were simply passing on bills that I had rec'd as part of my change, then I would hope they would not single me out for prosecution. (unless they were already angry with me over something else... hmm...) -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com