Yes, it would be more secure using a wire and that was my ultimate plan.
However, when I was trying to figure all of this out and get a test
version working I was in my Florida place where I only do wireless due
to the difficulty of hiding wires that needed to run about 40 feet from
the router.
The printers were a Brother laser printer and two HP inkjets... one just
a printer and the other an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier. I'm sure
I could have gotten at least the Brother working but it required
finding, downloading and installing the driver. Something I didn't know
how to do and wasn't willing to learn for the distribution de jour.
I finally decided to solve the security problem in a totally different
way. It was unclear if my old Dell XP laptop would really be able to
run 64-bit Windows 7. Both Dell and Microsoft made it sound doubtful.
But I bit the bullet and bought a copy. As it turns out it works just
fine despite a couple of mysterious error messages during install.
Long story short I decided that the solution to a secure Windows
financial transaction machine was for it to never visit any website
other than the 4 financial websites where it was expected to make
transactions. It knows of and visits no other sites. The 4 financial
sites are its total universe and it's only active when it needs to be.
It does that just fine and also knows how to print to any of my 3 printers.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/3/2014 2:19 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
Just out of curiosity, wouldn't making a more secure machine for financial
transactions have been better run over a wire than wirelessly? And, from
further curiosity, what was the printer? I've had very little trouble, for
some years now, making most any printer work with Linux. There are some
notable exceptions, but many fewer over time.
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