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Wow. What a world. It's only a matter of time before thieves make off with big secrets. Like who has been screwing the secretary and making obscene copies for their records only to have them 'pilfered' and spread over facebook!

LOL, the thieves already got the big secrets! They just aren't called thieves anymore. Ya ever heard that saying about why treason doth not prosper?

Did you ever notice how closely the word "malfunction" and "malfunction" resemble each other. For years this resemblance has steered me away from multifunction equipment. What little multifunction equipment I have used always seemed to have one function or another out of order. Now I read where not only can part of my equipment be out of order, but it can also sabotage my whole computer system. I think we are trying to make too little machines do too much. We would be much safer with single function machines and not have to close down the whole office. Perhaps we can continue to print and copy even if we can't fax. I can't help but wonder where it is all going to end.

Never proof-read your own work. That first line should have read "multifunction" and "malfunction."

I couldn’t agree more that owners of any connected device (whether it be a multifunction device or stand alone printer or fax machine) should change the default password settings on their machines. As the product security manager at Xerox I also encourage all of our customers, and owners of any connected device, to fully understand and utilize all built-in security features. In addition to educating our customers on changing default passwords, our products have a variety of security measures built-in including a network firewall, encryption, centrally managed permissions to access multifunction features and removable hard drives. Earlier this year at ShmooCon this topic was also discussed â€Â" I wrote the following blog post then, you can check it out here: http://realbusinessa...-mfp-security/.
Larry Kovnat

Wow. HP's drivers for a single MFP are as large as some operating systems… but apparently nowhere near as well engineered. Talk about bloat.