Showing posts with label how about no bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how about no bear. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2022

It has one job and that's not it

from here and here

Connecting your printer to the Internet, where all the hackers are, seems like a recipe for disaster. It's not like I can install an antivirus or firewall on the printer. Whatever HP (or similar printer company) needs the printer to communicate to their servers they can put into the printer drivers you install on your computer that is already connected to the Internet.

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Free WiFi and banking - What could go wrong?

from here (source image one and two)

Thanks to KetchupandBeer for tweeting the photo of a rather disconcerting billboard. That appears to be an actual hotspot stuck to the billboard where literally anyone could tamper with it (because why not find a way to make free WiFi even more risky). I wouldn't connect to that if you paid me.