Technology has its scary moments. It seems that for some time, Xerox’s color laser printers have been embedding the time, date, and printer’s serial number on every page. Apparently this is supposed to stop counterfeiting, but it doesn’t take a great logical step to see that it’s rife for abuse. When the government starts amassing documents on groups that don’t align with their outlook, and those documents are tagged, well. Nothing to fear if you’re not guilty, right?

The EFF, my charity of choice, has more information here. They’ve decoded some of these codes and are working to find and decode others. They’re asking for money and/or printer samples, but I post this here mostly for awareness’ sake.