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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Hippy Tribe Chief on May 14, 2013, 07:46 pm
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Lets say, i want to print official u.s. documents from a .gov site, without my computer or printer being exposed..
can i simply just print from my computer? since my internet is connected through tor?
is another possibility simply downloading the print job onto a vps, saving, and printing offline on a sd card or something?
thx
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Yes you can print from tor. I was discussing something different from what you described in this thread in during our conversation earlier. Sorry for the confusion.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but if your printer is connected directly to your computer, it's not a networked printer or anything, and everything is on a home LAN, then what does the internet and Tor have to do with anything?
More important than that: you need to do some research to figure out if your printer is susceptible to fingerprinting. The serial number may be encoded on the paper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
http://boingboing.net/2008/10/23/howto-read-the-secre.html
On that list of printers above, note the EFF warning: "A 'no' simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; it does not prove that there is no forensic watermarking present."
So if you want to print anonymously, you should only use a printer that you purchased anonymously, and preferably one that does not print identifying watermarks.