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A thoughtful analysis and yes, I do go on a bit. However when I am in that same sales meeting I am facing off with the customer's IT who is doing a brain scan to see if I know WTF I am talking about.
A salesperson once told me 'No one but you guys understood a thing you were talking about'. We won the deal because their IT knew our business had the knowledge to actually engage in the work.
As for being paranoid about security, maybe I spend too much time on sites like this:
AMT healthcare data breach impacts nearly 50,000 patients | The Daily Swig
After recently scanning a medical facility and seeing UDP ping attacks, TLS session spamming (100's of connection attempts per MINUTE) XML SOAP queries, and DHCP spoofs trying to reset DNS addresses I tend to get worried. All this on a site using a 10BaseT hub for it's MFP and Camera sub-net
Oh and then there are the broken MFP protocol stacks which lack updated extentsions.
Whether it's the Manufacturer Engineers or the Customers with arm's length IT nobody really wants to understand this (I've had the dead eyed conversations)......but the hackers.
Latest hacking news | The Daily Swig
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn" - Benjamin Franklin
Thanks to your link I learned about new for me 😊 printer vulnerability - cross-site printing
HP printer vulnerabilities left enterprise networks open to abuse via ‘cross-site printing’ attack | The Daily Swig
A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
I don't reply to private messages from end users.
Toshiba plans to introduce TLS 1.3 in the next release of copiers in likely April 2022 and then make the firmware backwards compatible to the last two generations of copiers.
Until very recently there has been almost no demand for TLS 1.3 .
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