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

[Matthew Trump <M.Trump () KENT AC UK>]

What justification was provided for connecting printers to the internet at these institutions?

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

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