Re: " ...colleges and universities all over the United States found that their network printers were spilling out Auernheimer’s flyer."

[Tracy Mitrano <tracy.mitrano () UMASS EDU>]

Thank you for that advice, Shawn, and might I also suggest to E. community and each campus that they boot this issue up 
to FBI and other federal law enforcement for violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Even if it turns out to be executed from outside the U.S., it is yet one more (potent) reason for why we need 
international Internet governance.

Tracy




On 3/28/16, 10:14 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Shawn Merdinger" <SECURITY () 
LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU on behalf of shawnmer () GMAIL COM> wrote:

> Lock down your printers, lest Weev (and now countless others) will
> troll you with racist print jobs.
>
> http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/hacker-weev-made-thousands-of-internet-connected-printers-spit-out-racist-flyers
>
> https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in
>
> Fwiw, I've a couple slides in a 2014 Educause preso detailing this
> vector exactly...down to the shell script...and one slide in
> particular that will most certainly get you the backing from C-level
> execs to remove your printers from public IP (child pr0n, hostile work
> environment lawsuits, every public IP printer now a state/federal
> crime scene).
>
> http://www.educause.edu/sites/default/files/library/presentations/SEC14/SESS08/shodan_for_edu_educause_security_conference_2014_public_version_shawn_merdinger.pdf
>
> Cheers,
> --scm