I hand write all my critical stuff, and I go to copycentre to get otherstuff
scanned or faxed.
Brother companyt just sent me a patch for their printer's wifi connection. I
really don't know if the patch addresses security concerns, but I suspect that
it does.
This action may force printer manufacturers to make a richer bios, where the
only acceptable data would be html5 or equivalent.
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Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
50 years in IT and going strong.
Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
and tomorrow will be even better.
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alternative: [email protected]
www.itbms.biz
>________________________________
> From: Sorin Toma <[email protected]>
>To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 6:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack,
>researchers say
>
>
>On 12/04/2011 10:00 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
>While it is true that millions of printers are open to hacking, there is no
>profit in doing this. Vandalism would quickly identify the guilty.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>> Leslie
>>
>>Mr. Leslie Satenstein
>>50 years in IT and going strong.
>>Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
>>and tomorrow will be even better.
>>
>>mailto:[email protected]
>>alternative: [email protected]
>>www.itbms.biz
>>
>>
>>There is profit there: did you ever printed sensitive information, like your
>>bank account number, your SIN, a password you don't want to forget? Are there
>>companies that print sensitive information? Well, all those can be sent to a
>>third party... JACKPOT!
>
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Sorin Toma
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