News came out a while ago that many of our laser printers were embedding “fingerprints” that allowed folks who knew how (like, say, the feds) to trace a printed page back to the day and time it was printed, and the serial number of the printer.
Or, at least that was the theory, until the EFF [...]

Posted April 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
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Engadget raised my fears a bit when they announced your laser printer will give you away:
It was big news last month when a couple of researchers at Purdue announced a way to trace documents back to their original printer or photocopier, but it turns out that Xerox and most other laser printer and copier makers [...]

Posted November 23, 2004 by Casey Bisson
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There I was Googling “proprietary” for a story about misuse of the word when I came across this gem from R.Krause:
An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (product or service mark) which has fallen into [...]

Posted March 27, 2004 by Casey Bisson
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