Why printers add secret tracking dots
I would love to know how many engineers, managers, and execs at printer companies were/are complicit in this.<p>Obviously it's a useful feature for an employer; a little underhanded (it should be common knowledge, not a secret program) and understandable from a business perspective. Especially for an organization like the NSA.<p>But for a consumer product, it is completely unreasonable to at least not offer an option to disable the feature. The only other product that deliberately leaves identifying traces that I can think of is ammunition.<p>Did anyone at one of these printer companies express reluctance over the idea? Was anyone let go over it? Did anyone refuse to work on the project?