Am I the only one with brains here at the office?

[zaxrex]

So we get an e-mail yesterday that our old printers were being replaced with new printers.
Old printers were leased to be swapped out with new printers that are leased, so we get good performance upgrades, yay!
I come back from lunch and see the movers carting out the shrinkwraped old machines and their print servers.
Heeeeyy, wait a minute.
"What is up with the print servers?" I asked.
"Oh, those machines were leased along with the printers, so they are going back." the tech said.
"You have an FOUO data destruction certificate for those?"
"Huh?"
At this point I walk over to the FSO desk and ask him if he has wiped the print servers before they are carted away.
"No, those machines never printed classified material" he says.
WTF? These machines were going to walk out of here with six years of industry proposals, DOE/DOJ/DHS/DOD reports, and FOUO capabilities analysis and nobody is going to bat an eye?

I had fun snapping the ram chips and putting neodymium cylinders through the holes I drilled in the HDDS.
Not the best solution, but All I could do without getting access to the electromagnet in the SCIF.

[PGT]

we had this discussion a few months back......the fact that printers have storage aboard and that was something that had to be processed too. a shame someone didn't think this through....

[drwrx]

Working in the print world I am just going to let all this slide.

I cannot begin to tell you some of the scary, SCARY, stuff I have seen regarding printer and print server security lapses over the years. Usually, it has to do with security policies that are clearly out of date. Most are Byzantine and draconian but have not been updated to deal with the realities of the digital age. Folks trying to figure out how to "shred and burn all materials" when there are no prints, plates or negatives. We recently had two print servers upgraded with not one discussion about what the proper process was to wipe the servers so that no data could be accessed. The sad part is that no one in our department who can set or change policy has any design or print background so it never even crosses their minds.

[complacent]

networked printers and their bigger brothers (multi-function devices) scare the crap out of me, period.

there are soooo many services running on these things now (almost a full distro!), gigantic hard drives, wired and wireless nic's, etc. the attack surface is gigantic.

never mind how poorly they're detected by most scanning software...

hate them, hate them, hate them.

[chicken n waffles]

I had fun snapping the ram chips and putting neodymium cylinders through the holes I drilled in the HDDS.
Not the best solution, but All I could do without getting access to the electromagnet in the SCIF.

we have one of those hdd degausser panels. one of the "throw drive on slate, fire up, be somewhere else" deals.

i wish i had a drill though . more funnerer.

[complacent]

we have one of those hdd degausser panels. one of the "throw drive on slate, fire up, be somewhere else" deals.

i have a slightly illogical fear of those things. i always catch myself crossing my legs and defending the fellas when we fire it up.

silly, i know. but still...

[chicken n waffles]

we have one of those hdd degausser panels. one of the "throw drive on slate, fire up, be somewhere else" deals.

i have a slightly illogical fear of those things. i always catch myself crossing my legs and defending the fellas when we fire it up.

silly, i know. but still...

that's a legit concern... based on the philadelphia-experiment-esque sounds that resonate from those sumbitches

[Raven]

we have one of those hdd degausser panels. one of the "throw drive on slate, fire up, be somewhere else" deals.

i have a slightly illogical fear of those things. i always catch myself crossing my legs and defending the fellas when we fire it up.

silly, i know. but still...

Maaaan, you guys have much cooler toys than I do.

[Mr Kleen]

networked printers and their bigger brothers (multi-function devices) scare the crap out of me, period.

there are soooo many services running on these things now (almost a full distro!), gigantic hard drives, wired and wireless nic's, etc. the attack surface is gigantic.

never mind how poorly they're detected by most scanning software...

hate them, hate them, hate them.

it's even better when your office buys two different types of multi-function printer/scanners from two different vendors.

[Sabre]

They should definitely scare the hell out of you all.

Zak: (800) 424-9098 (DoD hotline)

You did the right thing by destroying them as much as possible. Depending on the level of information on things, you can even get them sent to the chipper/melter for no cost...

[schvin]

networked printers and their bigger brothers (multi-function devices) scare the crap out of me, period.

there are soooo many services running on these things now (almost a full distro!), gigantic hard drives, wired and wireless nic's, etc. the attack surface is gigantic.

never mind how poorly they're detected by most scanning software...

hate them, hate them, hate them.

not to mention that they are often found on an ordinary user network and also plugged into a POTS line!

[RFBurn]

we have one of those hdd degausser panels. one of the "throw drive on slate, fire up, be somewhere else" deals.

i have a slightly illogical fear of those things. i always catch myself crossing my legs and defending the fellas when we fire it up.

silly, i know. but still...

there is the fear of radiation, however once you get to the point of having to destroy by hand 300 drives.. it seems like less of a big deal..