Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You?

EFForg · 167K views · 2008 · 5:44

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Explains how color laser printers embed hidden tracking dots that can be used to identify the printer and its user.

Linked by 7 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including eff.org, pluralistic.net, elhacker.net, maldita.es, entefy.com.