Congratulations to United Airlines
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United's had enough. Effective immediately, United added to the fine print of each ticket that refusing to use headphones and filling the cabin With unwelcome and disturbing music or other audio, that passenger can be kicked off the flight or arrested at the destination. Congrats, United!
What recent changes has United Airlines made regarding headphone use?
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How has United Airlines' new policy affected passengers?
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A lot of things are tracking us these days. Our printer is doing that too. Yeah, this is pretty wild. It's actually been doing it since the 1980s, but now it's getting a lot of attention. They're called machine identification codes. Yeah, pretty techie. Every color laser printer from, say, Xerox, Canon, HP, Epson, Brother, it prints them every page, every time. The dots are roughly one-tenth of a millimeter wide, and they're yellow on white, so pretty invisible to the naked eye. But what it does is it encodes your printer's serial number, the exact date, and the exact time that you hit it. print. Where this gets serious is that an NSA contractor by the name of Reality Winner printed a classified document about a Russian election interference and mailed it to a news outlet.
Well, the outlet published the scanned pages. Security researchers then inverted the colors and decoded the dots, and they found out that it was a printer model 54, the serial number.
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