Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Billy SG McCarthy billy at reshippie.net
Mon Oct 31 10:43:46 EST 2005


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:40:06AM -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Privacy indeed has become a big issue in the information age.  My 
> question is whether this encoding is performed in software by the driver 
> or by the hardware?

I'm pretty sure it's done in hardware.  This makes it OS neutral and a more
effective solution for those that want it.  

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Kindly yours,
Billy SG McCarthy



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