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Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Andrew Auernheimer, a black hat hacker known as "Weev," has admitted to hacking thousands of Internet-connected printers and making them print-out racist and anti-semitic messages. As you'd expect, the hack took place after the hacker used a simple port scanner and found millions of unprotected, Internet-accessible printers. He then used a one-line Bash command that sent them a PostScript file on port 9100. This triggered all printers to print his anti-semitic message. Ironically, the hacker is a former Jew turned neo-nazi while incarcerated for a questionable "hacking" incident when he revealed to Gawker that ATT had failed to protect one of their servers. The printer hack affected devices at USC, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, UMass, Princeton, Brown University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, DePaul University in Chicago, Clark University in Worcester, and many more.
"I was born with a penis but consider myself female."
Cool! You can be a high-maintenance aggressor now.
From the email I received last week:
"The University’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Access and Bias Response Team are investigating hateful anti-Semitic fliers that were sent Friday, March 25, to several networked print and FAX devices. Other universities across the country also have reported receiving similar fliers."
I'd be much more impressed if they had IT investigating.
"Ironically, the hacker is a former Jew"
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Is a white man who believes that whites are responsible for all the evil in the world suddenly Native American?
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Nope.
He'd be a Democrat.