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


From: Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () GMAIL COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:14:03 -0400

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


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