Comment by theGeatZhopa

thats HP and no one should buy HPs printers anymore until they stop their doings. Their aggressive behavior towards the customer and lurkin' into paying monthly subscription, data & update politics, mandatory always-on-internet-connection...

Thats on top. So, as an informed individual being, one should avoid HP. The other printer producers do not insinst on registration or wifi-before-first-use politics. But, who knows.

.. again, how can the government find out who you are by having just a code? If there's no mandatory registration (f.e. not HP)? If one knows how to poisen the tracking code? If one use a new/used printer and dispose afterwards? If one use the "neighbor from the first floor" printer?

There is no possibility to find out who printed that, if one takes a little bit caution and have little bit of knowledge. Even print-out-once-copy-many would make the code unreadable (f.e. normal quality and/or black & white) ...

spread the word! W00t W00t! :)