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Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the twisted-ways dept.

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.

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  1. Apparently he can change his family tree! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Ironically, the hacker is a former Jew"

    Is an African American who develops a bizarre hatred of African Americans suddenly no longer black?
    Is a white man who believes that whites are responsible for all the evil in the world suddenly Native American?

    He can disavow Judaism - plenty of Jews do it. They're called "secular Jews." They're still Jews, and he is, too.

    1. Re: Apparently he can change his family tree! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I was born with a penis but consider myself female. Are you saying I can't be a real woman?

    2. Re:Apparently he can change his family tree! by WarJolt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Suppose my father is 1/2 Irish and 1/2 German and my mother is 1/2 Spanish and 1/2 French.
      I would be 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German, 1/4 Spanish and 1/4 French.
      This is how ethnicity works.

      Let's suppose that being Jewish is an ethnicity.
      Now suppose my mother is Jewish and my father is not Jewish at all.
      I would be 100% Jewish.
      That's not how ethnicities work. Therefore being Jewish is a religious thing.

      And it's impossible to renounce your Jewishness, so your identity is force upon you by a religion you may not believe in. Other jews will define you by it. It seems strange to me.

    3. Re:Apparently he can change his family tree! by gweihir · · Score: 1, Insightful

      No, he is not. His former religion may claim that he is, but in actual fact he is a former Jew. Being a Jew is not something genetic. It takes two brain cells to rub together to see that however, which you obviously lack.

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    4. Re:Apparently he can change his family tree! by cas2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Nonsense. 'Jew' is a religious and/or cultural affiliation only indirectly related to genetics (there are jews of all "races"). You can choose not to be a Jew anymore, same as you can choose not to be a Christian or an American (emigrate and renounce your US citizenship). You can even choose not to be a white-supremacist neo-nazi any more.

      Of course to neo-nazis, he'll still be a jew and will always be a jew. with their fuckwitted ideology, the "taint" can never be removed. It's no great strecth of the imagination to guess that this is the "reasoning" behind your objection.

      By contrast, you can't change your genes. You can't choose not to be black or white any more. Not that it matters that much, scientifically speaking - "race" has been conclusively proven to be primarily a cultural construct. The genetic differences are minor almost to the point of irrelevance, aside from cultural prejudices.

      of course, racist fuck-knuckles will never admit or acknowledge this fact.

      Ironically, the hacker is a former Jew turned neo-nazi

      and thus ends the idiotic myth that "hackers" are always smart. here's proof that at least one of them is a complete fucking cretin.

  2. Printer with public internet ip? why? by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Printer with public internet ip? why?

  3. Re:ethics in journalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    For someone who seems to hate that movement a lot, you sure seem to post about frequently when it has nothing to do with story.

    I'm further reminded of a post of yours from the other day in a different story. Let's see if you can spot the logical fallacy in your own comment.

  4. Re:Nazi-shmazi... by Xabraxas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Neo-communist? The McCarthyites have come out in full force ever since Bernie started his run. I still haven't figured out if the communist label is out of laziness or stupidity.

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    Time makes more converts than reason