The only printers affected are color laser ones? Those aren't exactly the sort of machines most of us have sitting on our desks, in part because they are quite expensive. I was under the impression that schools and large businesses are the ones with that kind of equipment. In any event, there aren't very many ways your printer code could nail you: counterfeiting is one, ransom and/or threatening notes is another... I wouldn't have any problems with the government having the ability to, if they went through the effort, know that a certain paper came from my printer. Much ado about nothing?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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