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Interesting, I didn't know about printer fingerprints.

But I think there are still ways to workaround this. You could print the doc in an internet cafe, or buy a cheap printer and then destroy it, or print it and then take a low quality photocopy. You could even write it by hand or on a typewriter.




A photocopier is a (scanner+printer), so the problem remains.

Your best bet is large flea markets, where you can buy stuff like WiFi dongles, etc. with cash. Then wait a while before you use them.

I can't believe I'm having to write this, either. This is like giving instructions to a Soviet activist in the Cold War days, but ironically it is in my own country. How did we fall so far?


> How did we fall so far?

Fall? You'd have to give the same instructions to a Soviet activist in the Cold War days here.


"buy a cheap printer and then destroy it"

Have somebody else buy it with cash only. Surveillance cameras catching you with a printer and then not able to explain where it went will not go well.

I can't believe I actually am saying this. I truly can't believe that we are all having these kinds of conversations about something that should be as trivial as telling the truth. This is the kind of stuff I imagine the Russian mob would do, not employees of the US government who have a conscious. It is truly despicable and makes me a bit nauseated. The worse part is there doesn't seem like a fix and there doesn't seem like there is anywhere else to go to avoid this.




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