[Cryptography] trojans in your printers

[Henry Baker]

One of the largest attack surfaces in any home or office is the printer.

Modern printers are substantial networked computers, sometimes with large hard drives, which process all kinds of extremely confidential information, including bank account records, web page printouts, potentially compromising pictures, etc., etc.

These modern printers come with their own wifi, which you have little and/or no control over, and they contact whomever they please directly over the internet -- often using https, so you have no idea what they are communicating -- perhaps every page you've ever printed.

As has been shown time and again, these printers are easily hacked, after which they can do enormous damage.

Can anything being done to address the risks from printer-borne malware?