Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer
On 2006-10-05 17:58:54 -0700, Jason Dunsmore wrote:
> I'm running the latest Etch with 2.6.16-2-686-smp. This is a pretty
> big security problem, since my computer prints to a shared printer.
> Any idea what's causing it?
Perhaps escape sequences sent to the terminal? I had this problem
in the past. See the two bugs I reported (now fixed):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311384
"findutils: find should filter out non-printable characters"
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311490
"xterm: disable printing feature by default"
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