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What if there are security vulnerabilities that you don't know about? You think its working, but it isn't.
by jeremyjh 2y ago
What if there are security vulnerabilities that you don't know about? You think its working, but it isn't.
- adamtaylor_13 2y agoI’ll go ahead and roll the dice that my printer isn’t a gaping security hole in my home network.
- CGamesPlay 2y agoWhat can a hacked printer do? https://techyoulike.com/what-can-a-hacked-printer-do/ https://techyoulike.com/what-can-a-hacked-printer-do/
- gymbeaux 2y agoThat’s a terrible article. It includes nothing to backup the claims it makes- that printers have a plethora of vulnerabilities. The reality is your printer probably isn’t a realistic attack vector. Your average network firewall will keep you safe, but certainly in theory physical access to the printer could serve as a gateway to the rest of the LAN, and certainly physical access in theory facilitates accessing recently-printed documents.
- CamperBob2 2y agoTsk, don't you know that on Hacker News everybody is assumed to have the same threat model as a 3-letter spy agency, and is required to behave accordingly?
- gruez 2y agoSomething tells me that printer manufacturers aren't spending any man-hours to update whatever crusty version of openssl or libxml they're using.
- userbinator 2y agoKnown unknowns vs. unknown unknowns. I'll take the former (along with careful network isolation.)