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>He is? Who needs to print "financial documents" in color?

Nobody. Some still do out of ignorance.

The same thing can happen when you print them in black and white from a similar kiosk.

And the financial documents could be in the same usb next to documents you did want to print in color.

>Also, the part about "4 viruses written to the boot sector" suggests the kiosk is also dropping malware onto the USB.

He's trying to make a point, even if that wasn't the case in that particular instance, it's something that can very easily happen too.

There's a lot of losing the forrest ("people sticking usbs to commercial kiosks to print is bad security") for some less significant detail trees in those questions...



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