[rescue] Printing to the 'net

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joshua d boyd wrote:


> Anyway, the topic was printing over the internet.  So, the printers could
> be behind a firewal, but if the guy can print to them, but apparently the
> firewall isn't doing all that much (which isn't nescesarily bad in my
> book).


Yes, my printer has a public IP address. What's the worst that could
happen? Some goober empties the paper tray printing porn? So what? I've
secured the admin interface, and the thing's under warranty. Is a
printer smart enough to be used for a DDOS attack or some such?


> Anyway, so that comes back to the printer being exposed to the
> internet.  Isn't that considered bad?  I don't think of printers as
> something with great security defenses.


I guess my question is; what's to defend against besides paper waste?


---sambo