• Rinox@feddit.it
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    8 months ago

    I’m pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

    I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn’t have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

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      8 months ago

      I’m not at all asking for a government monopoly on making printers, if that wasn’t clear.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      It was requested by the secret service as a countermeasure for counterfitting. More frequently it’s been used to “catch other criminals”, at least that’s what they say.