On 12/02/2011, DanS posted:
And now with the whole HP printer exploit that's in the
news, who knows what's going to go on with printing
technologies...maybe there wil be a push just back to dumb
peripherals for most.

News to me. I plead ignorance here and I must check this
out.

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9076395-
exclusive-millions-of-printers-open-to-devastating-hack-
attack-researchers-say

One quote from the article:
"In that demonstration, a thermal switch shut the printer down –
basically, causing it to self-destruct".

That tends to destroy the article's credibility for me. In reality,
thermal switches, like fuses, *prevent* self-destruction...

But that was probably written by the reporter, and he may have been
confused.

Beyond that, I've been trying to figure out how the exploit can take
control of me and cause me to obtain CIA documents & carry them to the
printer so they could "...use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for
criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control
of entire networks that would otherwise be secure", or cause me to
carry copied documents to the post office and mail them to Petrograd.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)