Quotes of the week

[FBI agent Maria] Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found written down on a piece of paper during one of its searches.

Out of all the devices, operating systems, ports, and protocols out there, only one is so fragile and insecure that we had to exclude it from Nmap version detection by default. That is HP JetDirect (TCP ports 9100-9107). No matter what random crap you spew at the port, it will generally either crash the machine or start spewing out paper. When Nmap version detection was first released 7 years ago, we had so much immediate feedback about HP printer problems that we "temporarily" blocked those ports by default to give HP a chance to fix the problems. We're still waiting for that to happen! The HP printer I bought this year still goes haywire and starts beeping and spewing paper if I enable the HP JD ports by scanning it with "nmap -A --allports hostname".

  From what M described, the problem with his equipment
  is due to his laptop "hanging"/"freezing" before
  completion of the normal program run...