2014-09-16

What the world needs is more Doom

Looks like I'm not the only one toying with getting Doom running on the metal.  This is a post from a security researcher called Michael Jordon who found that some Canon Pixma printers have a vulnerability that means they can have custom firmware uploaded to them, and that the ARM processor and LCD display on the printer is just about capable of running Doom ...

http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/

(For the record, my first thought was a 0x10 key, don't know where he saw a 0x30 key in that data  :p  )

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