[Cryptography] trojans in your printers

[Steve Furlong]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l at odewijk.nl>
wrote:
>
> 2015-02-26 5:26 GMT+09:00 Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org>:
>>
>> I also keep my printer turned off when I am not using it,
>
> Turned off of powered off? How off is off? Can a hack turn off into
> "attack-only-mode"?

My printers are always unplugged unless I'm about to print something. This
is not so much for security as because my office doesn't have enough
outlets. Is "Security through poor wiring" a Thing or did I just invent it?

-- 
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
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