Reply to post: HTTP makes your printer an attack vector

We don't want to alarm you, but PostScript makes your printer an attack vector

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HTTP makes your printer an attack vector

"Cross-site printing (XSP) attacks empower a web attacker to access the printer device as demonstrated by [1] who use a hidden Iframe to send HTTP POST requests" ref

So it's a bug in the HTTP protocol rather than any defect in PostScript.

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