What your printer can tell about you....
Imagine this.....You work for a large fortune 250 pharmaceutical company. You come across a memo clearly stating that the company knows something is wrong with their product. You go public with the story as a whistleblower. Now, for the obvious, you want to protect your anonymity.
You contact a reporter, drop a copy of the memo and all is well..... until......
The Feds come knocking at your door, you lose your job etc. This is the way of the future, George Orwell was only off by a few years.
This story made headway in November, but has received little press. It seems that new printers, mostly color, but some plain old laser printers, embed a serial number in the prints, barely perceivable to the human eye. The example above is only one detremental effect on this technology. Of course, we're supposed to believe that it is to protect us from counterfeit rings - you know, like we are running fiber paper embedded with wire through our printers anyway!
This is a scary step in the privacy that we once thought was a right. To view the entire story from the Sunday Herald Online, click below:
http://www.sundayherald.com/46335