chargen is the new DDoS tool?

Wed Jun 12 00:07:19 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa at latt.net> wrote:

>
>         I have a hard time blaming a school for this.  I have an easy
> time wondering why printer manufacturers are including chargen support
> in firmware.

Isn't that what printer do?  Generate characters?  It was in the design
spec.

/me thinks of PHB going down port list, "yep, need that one!"

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