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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

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586 points prawn | 1 comments | 06 Jun 17 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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ProfessorLayton ◴[06 Jun 17 23:25 UTC] No.14502387[source]▶
It would be neat if there was a privacy printing app that added random yellow dots to a document to obscure the info.

Perhaps simply printing a single yellow dot through a few different printers would be enough to accomplish the same thing. Then using the resulting paper for "real" prints.

The more I think about it, this could even be a service. "Preprinted" paper that went though a bunch of printers, each adding their own unique identifier each time, then sold and distributed.

That or just paying cash for a printer.

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brianwawok ◴[07 Jun 17 01:18 UTC] No.14502999[source]▶
I hate to be the security is not important if you aren't doing anything wrong guy.... but I use a printer to do things like print a picture for my kid to color. What the hack are you doing with you printer to need pre dotted paper?
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1. captainmuon ◴[07 Jun 17 07:41 UTC] No.14504376[source]▶
I'll be honest. I like to reserve the ability to one day do something "criminal", if I have to. If I'm desparate and have to feed my family, and have no other option, I'd like to be able to resort to petty fraud. If the government in my country turns more authoritarian, and into a dictatorship, I'd like to be able to break some laws, too. I can imagine how a printer might be useful in either case.

Also, many things that are legal now, are only so because people have been blazing the trail by breaking laws before. Think marijuana, homosexuality, ... heck even things like religious freedom, freedom of speach, democracy a few hundred years ago.