Opinion: Realistically how likely is it that someone will intercept and hack a WEP stream to a printer. Unless this is a high security institution it is overkill to encrypt a printer stream. If there is a need to print the occasional secure document how hard is it to have a wired printer. There are more security breaches through people walking out the door with a document than via wireless printers. With security the weak link is always the human factor.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > *------------------ > > * > 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] <[email protected]> > alternative: [email protected] > www.itbms.biz > > ------------------------------ > *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. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi
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