You are what you print, or Seeing Yellow is Hard to Do...

[kinzel]

The government knows who you are because your printer tells them.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000247

Some time back I'd heard of folks testing Xerox brand color printers for this ... and now it seems to have become endemic. Welcome to the information age. Please be sure to register your gun when you buy it. And your printer.

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...and your Camera

[wjb3-reads.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the information age. Please be sure to register your gun when you buy it. And your printer.

...and your camera, and your word processor, and your DVR, and your...

( http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/23/pixel-noise-said-to-create-unique-camera-fingerprint/ )

By comparing multiple images from a single camera, the researchers say they can trace the images back to the specific camera that took the photos.