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Re: Canon/HP Multifunction printers have bugs planted in them at factory?
« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2010, 08:58:13 AM »
Sorry,  the full reference is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
And you will have to look to to find it.

A post script. The assumption has been made that a 'virus' would be planted in firmware without the designer's knowledge. The is not logically sound. It would be discovered if it would cause significant changes in behavior. Such as sending data to an unknown IP address. But if it never did anything, it would not be discovered. And if it never did any thing it would not matter.

Hypothetically, what if I told you that once I deployed over 300 Trojans  over a vast national private data network?  In one project. It has never been discovered. Because it was newer never used. And I will never ever tell anyone anything more about this ever. Hypothetically, of course.   :P

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Re: Canon/HP Multifunction printers have bugs planted in them at factory?
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2010, 12:00:36 AM »
Hypothetically, what if I told you that once I deployed over 300 Trojans  over a vast national private data network?  In one project..   :P

I'd say that you were full of it... hypothetically.
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Re: Canon/HP Multifunction printers have bugs planted in them at factory?
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2010, 09:21:10 AM »
A post script.

Have you tried printing postscript on any recent printer? Particularly the ones claimed to have these "bugs"?

(That's a serious, not a rhetorical question, I just don't think they bother with postscript interpreters, except with laser printers maybe)
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: Canon/HP Multifunction printers have bugs planted in them at factory?
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2010, 12:13:55 PM »
Have you tried printing postscript on any recent printer? Particularly the ones claimed to have these "bugs"?

(That's a serious, not a rhetorical question, I just don't think they bother with postscript interpreters, except with laser printers maybe)

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There are amazing things done with postscript.
After a few print jobs the buffer is clear and there is no trace of the code. Now let me go sulk. You exposed my secret.