To get to your printer, they would have to get to the print server. If they
get to the print server, then you really had no security program in place.
Thanks for the heads up Nick. I will use this argument for one of our clients.
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>________________________________
> From: Nick Sklav <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 2:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack,
>researchers say
>
>On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 19:00 -0800, 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
>>
>
>Yes in the case of making money it is not apparent, but if said hackers
>where paid to disrupt your business then i would say it could be
>profitable if there end goal was to do just that.
>
>Need to keep an open mind when security comes in to question.
>
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