arstechnica.com — The new Seeing Yellow project, started by some folks at MIT, encourages users to call printer manufacturers and ask tough questions about the use of tiny yellow tracking dots output by many color laser printers.
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haookenJul 17, 2007
I knew I should have bought stock in tin foil hats...
Closed AccountJul 17, 2007
ITS A CONSPIRACY MAN!!!
williamdyerJul 17, 2007
No, the intent is to tag everything anyone prints, so that when you say something against the government (which is now defined as terrorism) they can some get you.
bryanyeagerJul 17, 2007
the solution to this is to use a black and white laser printer...
climbjmJul 17, 2007
That's why I buy the $15 hp ink jet printer's at Wal*Mart.They usually come with free ink, so when they run out, it's cheaper to just buy a new printer.
Closed AccountJul 17, 2007
The fed doesn't want any competition on the money printing business.
mockylockJul 17, 2007
One day they'll have their children held ransom, and find out it probably would have been a decent idea to have some type of printer recognition dot on the paper at some point. It's not as if it's hurting them to have a printed serial on it, rather than just fighting the man because they're college students.The same goes for triangulation techniques that take to long to be warranted when someone comes up missing. The people who make the laws want their privacy, rather than allowing it to be used for what it's meant.I just find it s**tty that some people are going to die, or never be found because of the time lost.. or security measures taken away just because the loudest mouths out there don't want others to know their dirt.
mockylockJul 17, 2007
Yellow spots on your paper is invading your privacy? If I'm correct, they're the assh**es that are printing the money you're working for, and trying to keep it from losing it's value. It's not like they're going to pull up a naked picture of your mom and find out where you printed it from, or even have a camera in your bedroom.There's a fine line between good and evil when it comes to security measures and people that whine about every tiny thing that they government tries to do.It honestly gets old. Nobody cares about reason or what's right and wrong. They care about politics and government, so they think they're a better person because they found a flaw. Nobody gives a s**t that it's a yellow dot for tracking... even though they send mail every day that's tracked back to whatever post office that it comes from. They care that they can't print something without being caught.FIGHT THE MAN!. Asses.
williamdyerJul 17, 2007
What if they kidnapped some bootlicking narc-lover? Like you?