Prev: Which Windows version for Parallels?
Next: Punctuation marks in file names
From: Darrell Greenwood on 16 Jan 2010 14:25
In article <michelle-5CCA95.12035216012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png>

Googling produced this snippet...

"Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung
printers."

Cheers,

Darrell

--
To reply, substitute .net for .invalid in address, i.e., darrell.usenet7 (at)
�telus.net
From: Paul Sture on 17 Jan 2010 07:25
In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>,
> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote:
>
> > > <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png>
> >
> > Googling produced this snippet...
> >
> > "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung
> > printers."
>
> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer.

"Security: None"

Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by
accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that?

--
Paul Sture
From: J.J. O'Shea on 17 Jan 2010 08:30
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:25:42 -0500, Paul Sture wrote
(in article <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>):

> In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>,
>> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png>
>>>
>>> Googling produced this snippet...
>>>
>>> "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung
>>> printers."
>>
>> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer.
>
> "Security: None"
>
> Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by
> accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that?
>
>

Let's just say that under current British law you can get someone in a lot of
trouble if you were to print certain images to their printer and then call
the cops on them. For example, there's the gentleman who got two emails
containing video clips and is being prosecuted for them.
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/tiger_police/>. Britain is now
officially a police state.

As for blocking it, yeah, there's a way. Two, in fact:

1 connect the printer to an existing wireless net; it can only access one
wireless net at a time, so it won't broadcast the default ad-hoc net.

2 turn the wireless service off.

--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

From: DanS on 17 Jan 2010 08:31
In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>,
> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote:
>
> > > <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png>
> >
> > Googling produced this snippet...
> >
> > "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung
> > printers."
>
> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer.

You could have fun with that, sending phantom print outs to your
neighbor (particularly if it's one you don't like). They might think
they were getting messages from god, or from the great beyond! ;-)
From: Gordon Sande on 17 Jan 2010 09:31
On 2010-01-17 09:30:49 -0400, J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> said:

> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:25:42 -0500, Paul Sture wrote
> (in article <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>):
>
>> In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
>> Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>,
>>> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png>
>>>>
>>>> Googling produced this snippet...
>>>>
>>>> "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung
>>>> printers."
>>>
>>> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer.
>>
>> "Security: None"
>>
>> Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by
>> accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that?
>>
>>
>
> Let's just say that under current British law you can get someone in a lot of
> trouble if you were to print certain images to their printer and then call
> the cops on them. For example, there's the gentleman who got two emails
> containing video clips and is being prosecuted for them.
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/tiger_police/>. Britain is now
> officially a police state.
>
> As for blocking it, yeah, there's a way. Two, in fact:
>
> 1 connect the printer to an existing wireless net; it can only access one
> wireless net at a time, so it won't broadcast the default ad-hoc net.
>
> 2 turn the wireless service off.

The blocking question was intended the other way around. How does the
OP prevent
the accident of printing their financial net worth statements (or whatever) on
the neighbour's printer as the result of a careless menu choice?

 |  Next  |  Last
Pages: 1 2 3
Prev: Which Windows version for Parallels?
Next: Punctuation marks in file names