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No one really likes them, but printers are actually more sophisticated than you might give them credit for. Given the right circumstances, hackers can take advantage of those guts. One recently did just that with a classic hack that never gets old: Make it run Doom. Playing DOOM on an ATM British hacker Michael Jordon recently cracked the encryption in a Canon Pixma printer and got the machine to play the classic demon-shooter. That little display that you would usually use to tell your printer to collate or whatever is now home to Doomguy blasting hellspa
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stanley tazas . The real coding problem, though, is on Canon end. This kind of thing should not be possible. However, Jord
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