Tens of thousands of printers around the world started spitting out a racist flyer adorned with swastikas on Friday – in what a hacker described as an ‘experiment’
The flyer was printed by notorious troll Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer – who claims he simply scanned for printers with a port open, and sent a simple command.
The ‘experiment’ was designed to highlight how easy it is to take control of networked printers.
Auernheimer said in a blog post, ‘How many printers are there on the open Internet? I wasn’t sure of the answer at the time. It turned out to be upwards of a million devices.
‘That’s a lot of things to print to. The sheer volume of paper one can generate with a single command is impressive. An average pulping tree produces 8330 sheets of paper.
‘That is a very small fraction of the number of devices we can print to on the public internet.’ For the full article click here
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