Smashing Security, episode 007, ASKey-Art Attack, with Carol Terrio, Van Yarschweitzer and Graham Clule.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, episode seven, where we are going to talk to you about the latest computer security news and share some of our views as to what's been going on.

I am joined as always by my good chums, Carol Terrio and Vanier Schweitzer.

Hi, guys. How you doing?

Hello.

Good afternoon.

I'm going to try and say hello in a different

way every single time. Fantastic. That's what we want. Well, without further ado, what has been

peeking our curiosity? I've, I think we've all got a topic this week. I've got one,

which is about a hacker who managed to hijack a huge number of printers. Now, I don't

know about you guys. During your experience of IT, how much luck have you had printing things out?

Not much. Usually when you send something to printer, that appears on a third floor, or maybe, basically not on a floor where you sit on.

They've become much, especially in offices. They're pretty complicated computers now, aren't they? Like, they do everything but make coffee.

It's crazy, isn't it?

You try and print something. I mean, I only obviously work in my home office. It's just me and, you know, a cable and a printer. And sometimes one thing is... And still. And still, I'm not

unsurprised if the printer ends up in another country, quite frankly, the number of times when the problem

has come. The thing which has gone wrong with IT has basically been the printer. It's like the

printer is like Stonehenge. It's the technology which hasn't really moved on. Sometimes they've

got bells and whistles and faxes and scanners and doing all kinds of other things. But they so often go wrong.

They are those Stonehenge. I mean, you know, have you not gone paperless?

You know what? I do actually try and scan as much as I can and have searchable PDFs of my

important documents. But sometimes people demand something printed out. And so I have to

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