It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers.
It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots.
However, there are several printers who use tracking dots who it seems have done so of their own prerogative and not because the SS asked them to. Notably Dell, Epson, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG, Panasonic, Savin and Toshiba are doing it voluntarily or because of contact with some other agency.
Tracking dot free printers may be obtained from Samsung or Okidata, the two Korean companies. Clearly years of living under a military dictatorship and now being a free country have had an effect on what Korean companies are willing to do for government security apparatchiks.
FTA, the Secret Service replied to a FOIA request:
> ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service."
Nicholas C. Lewis posted a decent open source inkjet[0] on Thingiverse. He had a Kickstarter for his inkjet cartridge controller[1], which I later used for something silly[2].
[+] [-] droithomme|14 years ago|reply
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots.
However, there are several printers who use tracking dots who it seems have done so of their own prerogative and not because the SS asked them to. Notably Dell, Epson, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG, Panasonic, Savin and Toshiba are doing it voluntarily or because of contact with some other agency.
Tracking dot free printers may be obtained from Samsung or Okidata, the two Korean companies. Clearly years of living under a military dictatorship and now being a free country have had an effect on what Korean companies are willing to do for government security apparatchiks.
[+] [-] nmridul|14 years ago|reply
Not sure if that means they do not track or they use some other means to track ?
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[+] [-] fabricode|14 years ago|reply
> ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service."
Canon, Brother, Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Konica, Minolta, Mita, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox
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[+] [-] Cieplak|14 years ago|reply
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Postscript-Laser-Printer-Bundle/...
Has anyone here built a printer before? I'd like to build one for Richard Stallman and his Lemote YeeLoong, and send it to him with the source code.
[+] [-] nrp|14 years ago|reply
0: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8542
1: http://nicholasclewis.com/projects/inkshield/
2: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/semi-automatic-paintbrush
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