The next time you print a summary of your favorite James Bond film, you should consider that there might be more than one spy on the page. That’s because printer manufacturers and the U.S. Secret Service have been quietly collaborating to track documents — a worrisome revelation. An announcement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that their staff cracked the code Xerox uses to secretly tag documents printed by color laser printers recently put the issue in the spotlight.
You Americans are so paranoic,and so selfish, most really free societies would support gov't measures to protect their citizens from any major threats, not winge about so called threats to their imagined "freedom of speech"
Why is everyone calling this spying or a spy caper. There is no secret here. Nearly 10 years ago I watched a TV show on the history of counterfeiting. They mentioned several times that the government works with Copier companies to A. Track attempts at counterfeiting with copiers. B. Prevent color copiers and printers from using colors that approximate colors used on US currency. It has been long known the government has been working with copier and printer companies since true colors started being used in those devices. They would not reveal the technology, but they would tell you they did it.
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Printer-Spy Caper Threatens Freedom
Posted by: Sonia Arrison October 21, 2005 05:00 AMThe next time you print a summary of your favorite James Bond film, you should consider that there might be more than one spy on the page. That’s because printer manufacturers and the U.S. Secret Service have been quietly collaborating to track documents — a worrisome revelation. An announcement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that their staff cracked the code Xerox uses to secretly tag documents printed by color laser printers recently put the issue in the spotlight.