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Answer» >:(Somemore China threat talk from the retired CIA computer security tech and posted from my HP computer. Quote Hi all, (Homeland Security site, then US- CERT and look for "HP Printer Vulnerabilty") I've constantly mentioned HP products and printers as showing evidence of being modified so they are used for Malware proliferation. (Without the user/owners apparent knowledge). Finally, a study by Columbia University "discovers" the problem inherent with HP Products (currently made in China) No one in the US Government wants to admit the problem with these products for fear of the impact on HP. It's a real problem that needs to be understood by all users of HP multifunction printers (and any other product from HP). I've attached this article in Adobe .pdf format. If you use a printer manufactured in China it "Will have Malware" installed in firmware on the printer that will make your computer a target for additional future problems on the Internet. Internet use with extra care, without an HP product, (my motto, you choose your method if you think you know better) Your information is not true. A computer virus can be transmitted in a variety of ways. Putting a virus into a retail product is difficult, but not impossible. However, it is so much easier to invade a computer over the Internet that there is no resown a virus criminal would put his malicious creation inside a retail product of a large company . But whit an obvious twist. It may be with the intent to damage the reputation of a competitor. If that is the CASE, it must be an evil machination of a wicked competitor of HP. If only HP printers have the virus, then HP is a victim, not the criminal. Continue to buy HP products. Boycott everybody that does not have a virus, because they are the ones doing it. Who are you working for?I got it from a former co-worker in CIA communications. He was a computer security technician and follows the subject closely. He got it from the U.S. Cert article below; he strongly feels that many computer products made in China are made with a bug in them that can be activated by them when they want. I had a canon all in one that kept kicking out my canon driver and inserting a Xerox proscanner work centre driver that I could not get rid of and had to reinstall my canon driver often and then again in a few days or WEEKS. Never had a xerox product. Was it installed at factory or did I get a bug from a chinese web site, I don't know. http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/HPPrinterVulnerability2012.pdfThank you. The document is helpful. Here is a partial quote: Quote The underlying capability that enables firmware updating through print jobs is HP’s Printer JobFrom the above HP has identified the problem. The article does NOT indicate that Malicious Software is shipped inside retail products. rather it shows that a document can invoke the script language of then printer to do a firmware update. Which is a 'feature', not a 'bug'. Moral: Do not print documents for untrusted sources. Or turn of the job control language scripting of the printers in question. I once met this guy and he hypnotised me. I don't know what the keyword is but when someone says it, I'll go into president-assasination mode and nothing wil be able to stop me. I think the word might be German in origin so I have to stay away from German restaurants. Luckily, those are very few in between. However, the onset of cheap German products has caused additional concern for my "condition". Last Christmas a German friend sent me a musical card and I managed to set it on fire just before it got to the second part of O Tannenbaum. Disaster was averted this time! I also think I may have a piece of metal lodged between my buttocks that is of alien origin. Would anyone LIKE to see pictures of the bump of flesh down there that I suspect of being a Marsian communication array that uses my spine as an antenna? The keyphrase is "run the kill" in Latin... Thats why you couldn't spot it...Talk about moving the goalposts. Previously it was about HP printers that already had software installed to essentially allow for remote tampering, which presumably means that they can do evil THINGS like remotely cause your paper to jam or have it stop printing in yellow. The key quote here is from the title of the "news item" in the PDF file. "susceptible to malicious firmware update." susceptible. So what happened to the previous claims that they already arrived with tampered ROMs and Flash BIOS code? What happened to that? Surely those claims weren't fabricated, were they? This has absolutely nothing to do with Chinese cyberterrorism and everything to do with the inevitable fact that software is going to have bugs and issues and that they are going to be exploited. To assume that just because the devices were fabricated in China that there is some sort of connection is nothing short of an expression of ones own pugilistic stance towards foreign powers. Nowhere in the advisories is there any evidence towards you, or rather your totally not fictitious CIA "contact"'s, claims previously that HP Printers came pre-loaded with malware out of the factory. No evidence was ever presented for that claim and if this is the evidence for that claim it proves nothing other than the fact that the entire thing was, as I said, blown entirely out of proportion. I still am unclear how a remote exploit that could be used to cause a printer to overheat and possibly catch fire was morphed into "the chinese canz steal our dataz". It's been nearly a year since your initial post. Why has china done nothing with their clearly aggressive attempt to establish a beachhead of printers? Why do you and your friend continue to claim that this has anything to do with China without actually backing it up with anything concrete? Why do you continue to waste your time and the time of others entertaining your own paranoid delusions? Why do I suspect your CIA friend is in fact entirely fictituous?The title is a bit misleading as if i go back to your Posts from 2 / 3 years ago you also had this happen with a Canon and an Epson.Next year it will be Tablet computers from Korea have built-in cell phone tamers. Or maybe model airplanes from Malaysia have hidden air anti-aircraft missiles. |
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