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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.
Many years ago I worked in a University. All devices, printers included, had public IP addresses (and open ports). It was a hang-over from a previous time, when that was just how the uni set things up and deeply tied into the internet billing (charge by the byte) system the uni had. I was only a lowly desktop guy at the time but it was still a real problem for us. Every desktop PC, server, printer, whatever had a public IP. To block any ports, and I am being fully serious here, required approval from the university senate. Not an IT group - a bunch of arts lecturers and student guild type people. And they equated "blocking ports" with "censoring the internet". So absolutely every time we tried to change things, senate voted it down and we were stuck, for many years, with only ports for SMB blocked - every other port was open. To the world. On all our devices. We were allowed firewalls on devices like PCs - but that's not so easy on a printer.
Every morning we had to restart every printer with a HP jet direct (and many times during the day) because it turns out of you port scan an old jet direct, it hangs. We'd also have to leave printer trays open over night, so they couldn't just waste printer paper all night long, printing NIMBDA crap. We used to find that if you installed Windows on a PC or server with the NIC connected, it was literally infected before the installation was complete (truly).
OTOH, if your father is 1/1 white and your mother is 1/2 white and half black, you are still called black (Or African American)
I never figured that one out.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Here is the problem with that argument. My mother and father adopted me because they couldn't have kids. As far as I know they are a straight hetro couple. According to you, my mother isn't a woman, according to her birth certificate she is.
I have trans friends, I don't fully understand it, but I don't fully understand most things. They say that your physical sex is developed before your brain "sexes" There are different chemicals that regulate gender (estrogen and testosterone to start with)
My argument is this: If you can say that mental retardation is a real thing, then there must be differing degrees of change. Unless every down-syndrome kid is making it up, then you have to admit that the brain effects how you act and perceive the world. So, on the far end of the spectrum, you have DS, where do you draw the line between "born that way" and "just making it up for attention". Do doctors try to cure down syndrome, or do they teach the family how to cope with the different. I know there will be people who disagree with comparing the LGBTQ population with someone with down-syndrome. I don't, Reproduction is a part of the biological process. If you are not attracted to the opposite sex, then that is a disability in the mating process. That doesn't mean we need to find a cure, not everyone needs to produce offspring.
Next, lets look at the inter-sexed. There are people with both or neither fully developed sex organs. So there is proof that gender identity can be muddy from birth. Again, like the down syndrome argument,where do you draw the line? This person has a male sex organ, however, his brain doesn't produce enough testosterone for him to even go though the puberty. Is that a male or a female? So you have a guy with junk that doesn't work, and a high pitched voice, why not let him chop the broken shit off, get some fake tits, and at least conform to one norm in public. I mean, the only person who should know whats between your legs is the person, or people, serving it.