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		reset-password on May 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based... One other way this trail can be made is simply by installing the drivers. For example I noticed that when you complete the driver installation for a Brother color laser printer, the installer opens the default browser and navigates to brother.com/something/SERIAL_NO_OF_PRINTER. I am assuming that on the other end they're capturing the IP, fingerprinting the browser, and logging it all forever.

joering2 on May 13, 2022 [–]

Brother is same level evil as Canon. I was proud to learn even my new Xerox Phaser 8550 is not fingerprinting paper.

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