Careful, Counterfeiters: Color Lasers Identify Themselves

Apparently at the behest of the Federal Government, manufacturers of color laser printers are quietly embedding individual-unit-identifying yellow marks on each print they spit out.

Of course, it's a huge concern for civil libertarians who are seeing red over the yellow dots. The long arm of the law on the printer manufacturers will be tested by consumeristic efforts like Seeing Yellow, whose "buffer overflow" campaign is apparently more than the Feds are willing to continue chasing down . . . but will it prove compelling enough for manufacturers to change their stripes (and dots)?