Re: Google Summer of Code 2014 - IPP-over-USB printer support - Joint project idea for OpenPrinting and the kernel

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:01:07 +0100, Till Kamppeter said:

all non-Windows operating systems). IPP network printers have a lot of advantages compared to USB printers (letting the ability of several computers on a network being able to access them aside):

- Encrypted job transfer

I'll merely point out that encrypted transfer doesn't mean much for a USB transfer - if an attacker is able to play with your USB you have far greater problems than that to worry about...