mics (machine identification code) are nearly invisible marks most printers add to anything they print, as a means of tracking where each peice of printed material was printed from - down to the exact printer. not model, the individual printer
it's allegedly to curb counterfeit money, but obviously it can be used to connect material you print for, say, activism or political stuff down to the exact printer you used. if you're going to bureau en gros to print, or if you used a printer you bought, it can be traced to you
the @eff has some material that tried to identify printers that do or do not use mics, but it's no longer maintained:
I got a DM about how to host a Website as anonymous as possible, especially viewed from the outside with as little attack surface as possible. I already threw a bunch of my ideas in the room, but maybe you can think of something I haven't thought of...
Please just answer to this post if something crosses your mind from security over hoster to the website itself, I will link it to the person.
Així que Espanya va enviar una de les seves ordres xusques a Suïssa (d'aquelles que anomenen terroristes a Tsunami –LOL), Suïssa va requerir a #ProtonMail i això va acabar descobrint la identitat d'una persona (a través del seu mail de recuperacio i un requeriment a Apple), i en la seva detenció.
Aneu amb compte i no doneu per fet que un servei segur/encriptat us converteix en anònims.
(Notícia de fa mínim dos setmanes que pel que sigui no m'havia arribat fins avui)
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I mentally crossed that threshold where I think, that every publicly funded project by law should be enforced to have at least one hire with 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤¹ on the payroll with the sole role of managing the IT stuff.
¹: I don't care that having the certs doesn't mean, they're actually competent. I'd be perfectly contempt with some checklist checking button pusher who at least memorized by rote some "best practices" and does a 40% job. That'd still be better, than current affairs.
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