Ulterior motives in hardware design, deliberately working against the user's interest, violating privacy and causing easily avoidable real-world problems. Isn't it wonderful?
Interestingly, the U.S. government may have convinced all printer manufacturers to put some kind of tracking mechanism in every color laser printer (certainly those by Xerox, Canon, HP, Epson and Brother), however, no law requires the printer companies to help track printer users this way, and no law prevents them from stopping this practice or giving customers a solution to avoid being tracked.
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Formerly Print Quality Marketing Manager for eleven years at Creo/Kodak. Presented at print technical conferences, trained printers and buyers regarding print quality issues in Europe, N. America, and S.E. Asia. Articles published in trade journals, co-authored TAGA paper on halftone screening, authored BRIDG's guide to halftone screening. Previously Technical Director of Western Canada's largest commercial sheetfed shop. For several years Professor of Digital Graphic Design at Emily Carr University. Former Creative Director at McCann Ericksson Vancouver.
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Ulterior motives in hardware design, deliberately working against the user's interest, violating privacy and causing easily avoidable real-world problems. Isn't it wonderful?
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, the U.S. government may have convinced all printer manufacturers to put some kind of tracking mechanism in every color laser printer (certainly those by Xerox, Canon, HP, Epson and Brother), however, no law requires the printer companies to help track printer users this way, and no law prevents them from stopping this practice or giving customers a solution to avoid being tracked.
ReplyDeleteha ha, imagine if the church had done that when the guttenburg press was invented!
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