Big Brother is Watching. The EFF announced that many color laser printers add tiny tracking dots that encode the printer's serial number. The hidden pattern is revealed with a blue light, magnifying glass, or microscope.

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien said "[I] shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?"

Given advances in printing resolution, steganography, and encryption, there is no limit to what could surreptitiously be hidden in that innocent resume you just sent out to 1,000 potential employers. Imagine the next generation of hackers competing to see which one can write the best hidden virus to piggyback all your bank, credit card, and Internet accounts, logins, and passwords on every printout. It's back to swallowing or burning the evidence for assured privacy.

Marc Freedman
RazorPop, developer of TrustyFiles, the leading multiple network file sharing software with search and download of ALL top networks.
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