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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: 0.223s | source
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nathanvanfleet ◴[07 Jun 17 02:02 UTC] No.14503161[source]▶
The Lives of Others, which takes place in East Germany and includes a typewriter which is not registered with the government; was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. And it's ultimately the live we'll live as tracking technologies continue to get better.
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X4lldux ◴[07 Jun 17 06:20 UTC] No.14504112[source]▶
Yeah. Back in the days in Poland, when communism was still 'live and well', every typewriter was registered. Also, phone calls were monitored, but at least they had the courtesy to play a message "calls are monitored" before each call.
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1. B1FF_PSUVM ◴[07 Jun 17 07:50 UTC] No.14504413[source]▶
> they had the courtesy to play a message "calls are monitored"

Probably meant they didn't actually have the resources to monitor all calls, so they were requesting people to not plot rebellions on the phone.

Now we're richer than that.