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Re: List of Printer Manufacturers working with the Secret Service"

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It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers. http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots. However, there are several print…

When was South Korea a military dictatorship? [Oh, nm, learned something new today.]

Re: List of Printer Manufacturers working with the Secret Service"

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FTA, the Secret Service replied to a FOIA request: > ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service." Canon, Brother, Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Konica, Minolta, Mita, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox

No Epson? Well that is odd.

It just means they have not been asked to identify an actual person for an actual case. I would not take this as proof that Epson (or any other company not on this list) printers are free from the ID dots.

Re: List of Printer Manufacturers working with the Secret Service"

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It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers. http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots. However, there are several print…

Curiously enough, none of the Samsung's printer show the tracking dots as per the list at https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d....

Not sure if that means they do not track or they use some other means to track ?

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