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| ▲ | rustcleaner 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >However, going from only a serial number to finding the name and address of its owner is going to be very difficult to impossible. Printers send telemetry to the mothership, including serial number. Anyone under NSL cannot disclose that fact, so it's possible (probable) that if OEMs are pulling serial numbers, computer names, usernames, registered owner names, IP address logs, that they are NSL to retain and/or redirect that data feed. It explains why everything, everything is so ****ing leaky with your information (beyond just advertising). Where do you think our modern machine learning came from? It was in order to process this stupendously gigantic mountain of data! I'm sure Utah was running some less efficient prototype of the learning we see in the public today back in the time of the GWOT! So no, it's not just to confirm, as a few privileged individuals [at best] can go to terminals and pull up gobs of information. This is one of the reasons seeing-sphere-company's stock has done so well recently (money money for me)! | | |
| ▲ | Terr_ a day ago | parent [-] | | This also gets into the evil of parallel construction, where unconstitutional or at least beyond-voter-awareness method is used, and they make up a different reason afterwards. |
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| ▲ | mmh0000 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Until you install the windows print driver. Which phones home to the manufacturer with your ip address, other computer details, and the discovered printer’s serial number. | | |
| ▲ | HeatrayEnjoyer 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Source? | | |
| ▲ | mmh0000 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure! Here's HP¹. You can look up others on your own: ``` Product Usage Data – We collect product usage data such as pages printed, print mode, media used, ink or toner brand, file type printed (.pdf, .jpg, etc.), application used for printing (Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, etc.), file size, time stamp, and usage and status of other printer supplies. We do not scan or collect the content of any file or information that might be displayed by an application.
Device Data – We collect information about your computer, printer and/or device such as operating system, firmware, amount of memory, region, language, time zone, model number, first start date, age of device, device manufacture date, browser version, device manufacturer, connection port, warranty status, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers and additional technical information that varies by product.
```¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20190828162443/https://www8.hp.c... | |
| ▲ | fsflover a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557589 |
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| ▲ | jasonjayr 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Register your printer for 6 free months of ink!" |
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