<story><title>Canon printer hacked to run Doom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29203776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>The linked-through blog article describing the decryption process was interesting:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.contextis.co.uk&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;hacking-canon-pixm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What I especially liked is that this was literally one of the challenges from the Matasano crypto challenges:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cryptopals.com&amp;#x2F;sets&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;challenges&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fun when theory meets practice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canon printer hacked to run Doom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29203776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wesley</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like someone to make custom firmware to stop these new canon pixma&amp;#x27;s from cleaning themselves at every start, and generally taking minutes before even starting to print. It&amp;#x27;s ludicrous.</text></comment>