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I am really surprised these kinds of printer "hacks" are still possible in 2018.

• saagarjha 8y ago
  I'm sure much of the software running on the printer is older than I am, no matter how new the printer itself is.
• wu-ikkyu 8y ago
  Why are you so surprised?
  • Rjevski 8y ago
    In this day and age I would've expected any non-secured printer to be flooded by spam on a continuous basis, to the point where they have to be secured if you don't want them to run out of paper printing spam every single day. I'm surprised that these companies managed to get by with non-secure printers without being overwhelmed by spam.
• tempodox 8y ago
  Are you kidding? IoT stuff doesn't have any security either, and it wasn't invented 100 years ago.
  • squarefoot 8y ago
    True although there are previous technologies enabling home appliances to be connected and controlled from outside through radio and telephone couplers. X10 which dates back to the mid 70s is probably the most famous one. Back then there were no such things as encryption protocols: if someone knew your air conditioner was connected to your phone line he could turn it on just by phoning to your home and sending the right tone over the line. Hacking was just a matter of time spent finding the right frequencies; no firewall to prevent anyone from trying a thousand times until someone would hopefully notice and pull the cord. Despite those "vulnerabilities" though, I never heard about abusing other peoples devices. I would be interested in hearing experiences from actual owners (or hackers:) of those old systems.