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| Thread ID: 65387 | 2006-01-16 10:32:00 | Can a digital photo printing machine be infected with malware? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 421617 | 2006-01-16 10:32:00 | Not that I intend to do that, of course, but I am just wondering the possibility of doing so. I noticed that a Kodak photo printing machine has USB ports as well as multiple slots for accepting media cards and CD drive. Supposing in a scenario whereby a person deliberately transferred a virus into his / her media card, then purposely slot it into the machine. When the machine reads it, will the virus be executed? Cheers :) P.S. I know, this sounds like a wild idea. :rolleyes: |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 421618 | 2006-01-16 18:09:00 | Technically yes, but it depends on the machine. Hell there were rumours you can infect a Lexus with a virus transmitted by bluetooth. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 421619 | 2006-01-16 23:50:00 | I think you can assume that the kiosk machines won't boot from the USB slot . Unless the programme loader software was written by Microsoft . Oh dear, they could easily be wide open . :D But the power switch isn't normally accessible to the vile populace . The software will be set up to take inputs only of known picture file types . There are stories that it's possible to take over the OS with nasty picture files . But what would the point be? It either produces pictures, or it doesn't . There are much more effective (non software) ways to sabotage a machine like that . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 421620 | 2006-01-17 00:20:00 | Perhaps you want to infect people's memory cards, and from there, hopefully infect a computer when it reads the memory card. Perhaps you could even infect the digital cameras. | Greven (91) | ||
| 421621 | 2006-01-17 00:35:00 | If I was writing code for such a device, I think I would make sure that the kiosk couldn't ever write to the customer's media. If I was working for Kodak or any large US company, the company lawyers would make sure that I did. :cool: | Graham L (2) | ||
| 421622 | 2006-01-17 02:12:00 | If I was writing code for such a device, I think I would make sure that the kiosk couldn't ever write to the customer's media. If I was working for Kodak or any large US company, the company lawyers would make sure that I did. :cool: But don't those machines let you delete the photos off your memory card after you have printed them? |
Greven (91) | ||
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