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Hacker Scare Story - They're After Your Blender
- tptacek 16y agoThe actual story that Schneier has provided 2 snarky lines of comment about was on Hacker News a week ago... and was flagged off the site.
- rbanffy 16y ago"Yeah, and Richard Clarke thinks hackers can set your printer on fire." Well... If I could burn a new firmware into a laser printer I could, conceivably, print a solid black region, put it under the fuser and let it heat until the printer catches fire. It would be quite an accomplishment, but I have seen weird things in my career. I remember the time you could blow up an IBM monochrome monitor by messing up the timing of the 6845 CRTC in the MDA board. edit: oh... and if I could burn a new firmware in the printer, I could set aside some storage and make it transmit everything that's printed to a server of my choice. Or to keep it stored until someone can pick it up.