Comment by ztrlp
3 years ago
Soon they'll have a hidden 5G Internet connection that sends all printed material to the manufacturer, who will then sell the data to advertisers and the state.
Are there still any new printers (postscript, laser) that are reasonable? Black and white printing is sufficient.
There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/416/
Also, actual example of a smart TV connecting to an unprotected WiFI: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912135232/https://forum.dev...
I wish ours connected to any wifi?
I have a strong feeling this is somehow related to our local office network, but... any wifi printers we have never 'wake on lan'. If I reboot the printer, it's connected. 30-60 minutes later, it will not respond to any network commands. It's on, and you can go insert USB stick to print, or make a copy on it, and it says it has an IP address, but it's essentially 'dead'. Although it has 'wake on LAN' set (or whatever the setting is).
Brother, but same issue with HP before that (and... someone else reports similar with their printer in their office too). But we have a dozen people plus more devices on the wifi every day without incident. Just something about the printers we've had over the last few years.
Have changed wifi routers at least once during this period as well to no avail.
Wake on LAN means that you can wake the device from sleep mode by sending it a special WoL packet; I'm not quite following how that's related to your problem?
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They already add hidden tracking dots to documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
I don't know how this is legal without informing the user. But that's the case with a lot of censorship/surveillance technology - they not only want to keep surveil/censor, they want to do so while keeping users in the dark about it.
Or use it themselves. They can just print little tailored ads while you're printing based on your print history.
Not too far out of the question the more i think about it. Remember when we used to print directions and they were often littered with ads intermingled with the steps.
I remember business folks throwing out/"recycling" several pages of scam ads faxed to them overnight, every morning. It's not the same thing but it's the same result.