Better to distribute some plush comfort animals. Then recognize appeal to ridicule is a fallacy, and THEN fix “are you dead ?”
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 10, 2018, at 12:45, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
