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Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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> hate printers with the same passion as me A remedy exists, it costs around 100€, is sold by Brother and is called "wifi-enabled laser printer". Your life will be free off printing woes onwards.

Second. The "Brother Print&Scan" app is completely usable for printing from iPhone. Third-party replacement toner is cheap.

Didn't even know this exists, I just use AirPrint.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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> Your WiFi information is never sent to the server. This makes me think that we could use some flag that identifies purely static websites. Like next to the green https lock there is a sign that this website can not send data to any server

What if it didn't send anything to the server. Today. But stored it in local storage. And sends it next week when you come back.

Don't allow that. When a site registers as "local", which gives it the "local" badge, do not allow the site to switch back to non-local.

Perhaps the site could be allowed to update itself. But this update function should not have access to any local/client state.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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> hate printers with the same passion as me A remedy exists, it costs around 100€, is sold by Brother and is called "wifi-enabled laser printer". Your life will be free off printing woes onwards.

How do I connect the printer to wifi, without the printed wifi card?

Using the shitty LCD and buttons. Painful, but only have to do it once.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #299

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You can still hide the data in "folders". /foo/bar/baz/buz can be totally dynamic on the server.

Or in the subdomain, using "DNS exfiltration": https://twitter.com/rsobers/status/1293539543115862016

That's an interesting exploit, thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #187

I can also recommend drawing it instead of printing if you hate printers with the same passion as me. Record to beat for drawing a working QR code is 3 tries and I think about three hours (for an SSID of 13 bytes (5 unicode characters) and 19-character password). I did it mostly out of curiosity how hard it would actually be (spoiler: medium difficulty).

> hate printers with the same passion as me A remedy exists, it costs around 100€, is sold by Brother and is called "wifi-enabled laser printer". Your life will be free off printing woes onwards.

Love my HL-L2360DW hanging directly off Ethernet. What a truck! Fast enough, auto duplex printing. Mine never jams. It just doesn't. Cheap cheap cheap to run.

I also have a Canon MG6220 for when I need color, which is not often. I gets used more as a scanner/copier than as a printer. It has also been really reliable, and since it doesn't print all that much, the ink cost has been quite bearable. I might not feel the same about the Canon if I didn't have the little brother laser printer available to pound out B&W documents when I need them.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #162

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You sure you didn't have a computer architecture course? Most CS programs it is a required course

I did (actually it was last semester) but they didn’t do basic definitions, it came with an assumption you knew what the parts of a computer were.

That's unfortunate. Luckily there are tons of good resources online like OSSU https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #74

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useradd -m luser iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -m owner --uid-owner luser -j REJECT Now log in as luser and run your browser.

This would still allow data exfiltration via DNS. It really needs to be done at the browser level.

This rule blocks all IP traffic including DNS requests.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #319

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Is this some meme I didn't hear about?

I am very surprised you have not heard this before, especially if you've used a printer in your lifetime. Yes, it's a "meme" (not sure whether to apply that word if it's not a badly drawn or photo-edited image, perhaps recurring theme is a better word?). You're one of today's lucky ten thousand!

FYI:

> a meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

The concept of a meme is in no way limited to images.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #74

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This would still allow data exfiltration via DNS. It really needs to be done at the browser level.

This rule blocks all IP traffic including DNS requests.

It only blocks IPv4 traffic, so on an IPv6 enabled host it can easily be bypassed without even involving DNS. But assuming an IPv4-only host, on a system using nscd, DNS lookup is performed over a Unix socket:

    Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
     pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
       23  1445 DROP       all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            owner UID match 1007
    
    # setuidgid outtest ping -n 1 -4 google.com
    PING google.com (142.250.102.100) 56(124) bytes of data.
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