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Story: Hackers use Google to access photocopiers

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Don't we have enough real security concerns in the world without articles like this? The information in this article is misleading, at best, and the implications it makes are simply false.

The implication is that one can simply "search for online devices" and "what what people photocopy" is entirely unfounded.

Yes, one can obtain user credentials from web servers that are not properly secured--but doing so is not trivial. And using those credentials to get some amount information about photocopied jobs is theoretically possible--if the photocopier is available on the network, improperly secured and improbably designed--all of which are *large* IFs.

There's enough confusion and concern over security and technology in the world. ZDNet's choice to publish bunk like this and fan the flames of confusion is unfortunate.

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