Don’t be scared, but your printer is spying on you. The EFF has discovered that yellow dots printed on everything you produce. They haven’t decoded the dots, but the EFF is contact printer manufactuers via SeeingYellow.com and is trying to figure out what the dots mean and who the heck is watching us via paper.
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Sheesh! Paranoia much?
Ancient news, at least by technology standards.
This has been known for years and also extends to some color copying machines. The dots are made up in a matrix and typically contain the printer serial number and time/date of printing.
This has been posted on crunchgear before……..
And it was years old news back THEN….