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Ex-MI5 boss: People ask, why didn't you follow all these people ... on your radar?

Ed_UK

Re: Not the Internet?

<<@LeahroyNake

I don't believe the printer includes the date, time or location.

Apparently, these days, they do... :-O (as well as serial no.)

...

>>

They have included date & time for many years.

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2005/10/16

"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.

Example of cracking the code:

https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

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