List of Printer Manufacturers working with the Secret Service"

It's very interesting because we already knew this list from tests that have been done that identified tracking dots on output from printers from these manufacturers.<p><a href="http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/" rel="nofollow">http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/</a><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...</a><p>It validates that there wasn't something that went unnoticed on manufacturers that don't employ tracking dots.<p>However, there are several printers who use tracking dots who it seems have done so of their own prerogative and not because the SS asked them to. Notably Dell, Epson, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG, Panasonic, Savin and Toshiba are doing it voluntarily or because of contact with some other agency.<p>Tracking dot free printers may be obtained from Samsung or Okidata, the two Korean companies. Clearly years of living under a military dictatorship and now being a free country have had an effect on what Korean companies are willing to do for government security apparatchiks.

FTA, the Secret Service replied to a FOIA request:<p>&#62; ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service."<p>Canon, Brother, Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Konica, Minolta, Mita, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox

How to build your own laser printer:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Build-Postscript-Laser-Printer-Bundle/dp/0830647384" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Build-Postscript-Laser-Printer-Bundle/...</a><p>Has anyone here built a printer before? I'd like to build one for Richard Stallman and his Lemote YeeLoong, and send it to him with the source code.

At least they aren't working with Scribd.

Is this new? I thought this has been a well known fact for some time.

Not Samsung?