[Tfug] More Big Brother

[Claude Rubinson]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:09:08AM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:28:46AM -0700, keith smith wrote:
> > Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You
> > 
> > Did you know that many (in fact, most) color laser printers are spying on you whenever you print a document?
> > 
> > http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/35239
> 
> Must be a slow news day over there at Yahoo, huh?  EFF was talking
> about this back in 2005.  http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

Ah!  This is why this is back in the news: an org from MIT has
resurrected the issue.
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/compcult/archives/000118.html
http://seeingyellow.com/

Would have been nice if Yahoo had explained the context rather than
just trying to get eyeballs by fanning the flames of paranoia.

C.