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ProfessorLayton ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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demarq ◴[] No.14504295[source]
Your kid, enjoys the nice things in life in part thanks to the thankless work of activists. Lot's of freedoms we have today are because of people who put themselves under great risks to benefit the rest of us. They might be printing pictures for their kids or evidence of powerful entities doing things they shouldn't be doing.

So it's nice that you print stuff for your Kid, but what about those who print for societies sake?

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1. mowenz ◴[] No.14504574[source]
That's the most important argument. The second has to do with the vast number of different kinds of abuses that will occur--that you previously couldn't even imagine would--when we give up our privacy^1

[1]-https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/09/police-ro...