I have to suspect that the block encodes the make and model in addition to the serial number of the specific device.
So there's some safety in a "clean" printer only insofar as the exact serial number isn't known in the wild but it's still a pretty narrow search space.
Urzl
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2026-01-17 13:39:02 UTC
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