Hello friends, This talk of hospitals has triggered me. Can we please censor the mailing list?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Stewart Joseph <stew...@lekcomp.com> wrote: > Oh, I agree. It would be concerning if I was there. But from over here we > got a good chuckle. You are correct, the wording could be a bit more > professional. Maybe phrases that get printed out could start with a phrase > like “Network Security Scan In Progress. Diagnostic Message is:” so that > people don’t get concerned with whatever gets printed. I wonder what other > gems are out there? > > > > Stewart Joseph > > LEK Technology Consultants > > 407-877-6505 x1103 > > www.lekcomp.com > > > > From: Andrew Robinson <a...@rescor.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 11:46 AM > To: Alex Smirnoff <a...@eltex.net>; Stewart Joseph <stew...@lekcomp.com>; > openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org > Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] "Are you dead?" Really? > > > > Yes, _I_ appreciate the humor and irony. But the client didn’t find it even > slightly humorous, particularly when the nurses in the hospital almost > triggered the lockdown protocol because they thought they were under an > active threat. An over-reaction for sure, but as I try to advance OpenVAS as > a professional tool on par with it’s commercial sibling, Nessus, this > doesn’t make my job any easier. > > > > I manually patched libopenvas_nasl.so.9.0.1 to change the string from “are > you dead ?” to “function check” > > > > Something like this should be done in the OpenVAS source. Or at least make > it a string that can be set, and NOT default to “are you dead ?” no matter > how ironic or humorous that default might be. > > > > On Apr 10, 2018, at 11:14, Alex Smirnoff <a...@eltex.net> wrote: > > > > If it asks "Are you alive? Prove it!" then it might be more scary. Even > if it is a printer, not a toaster ;-) > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:05:46PM +0000, Stewart Joseph wrote: > > You must admit, there is more than a touch of ironic humor there. I ran a > scan of a Deli's network and when it hit their receipt printer it printed > out about 3 feet with the word "Hello" in it. I wasn't there when it hit. > They thought the printer had become self-aware. > > Stewart Joseph, CTO > LEK Technology Consultants > 407-877-6505 x1103 > www.lekcomp.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Openvas-discuss <openvas-discuss-boun...@wald.intevation.org> On > Behalf Of Andrew Robinson > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:48 PM > To: openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org > Subject: [Openvas-discuss] "Are you dead?" Really? > > Running an openvas scan with printer scanning enabled CAN result in several > pages containing the string “are you dead?” being printed. In this case, in > a hospital, in the ob/gyn suite. > > Not good. > > I’ve searched through the NVTs and can’t find where this string is sourced. > Does anyone know? > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
