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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.
The good old day..
"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.
He posted on twitter before, during, and after the act.
Printer with public internet ip? why?
Spamming open printers is a high school-level, skiddy prank, at best.
Asshole acts like asshole
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If you don't pay me 1K I will print page after page of pure LINES the ink costs will be more then the 1K
There are a lot of incompetent IT departments who never have pen tests.
Trump supporter
But different types of messages. Good stuff.
I wish people would stop calling this guy a hacker. He just walked through an unlocked door. Hardly breaking and entering.
Entering, maybe, but not breaking. Not a hack.
Well, what he did wasn't a hack, but what he is may be considered a hack.
Weev was one of the early proponents and e-celebs in the now-defunct #gamergate movement. He wrote, "Gamergate is the biggest siren bringing people into the folds of white nationalism." You can look it up yourself, if you don't believe me.
Here is an admiring profile on him written by a guy that runs the biggest White Supremacist podcast in Europe:
https://plus.google.com/+Henri...
You are welcome on my lawn.
The reason why Auernheimer chose to do this is rooted in his personal history. Back in 2010, while a member of the Goatse Security group, Auernheimer exposed a flaw in a public AT&T server to Gawker Media before telling AT&T about it. This incident led to the exposure of details about 114,000 iPad users.
FBI indicted Auernheimer, who was later sentenced to 41 months in jail, during which time he joined a "white nationalist" movement. Ironically, Auernheimer is a former jew converted to Mormonism.
lol.
Are local network printers in a public place fair game to print to under the law?
I know of libraries where you have to pay to print and they have some kind of card / coin system hooked to the printers and copiers.
Some hotels have free printers in the guest areas some even have them on the guest network.
DePaul University seems to have pay printing with 3rd party software?
But will the printers just show up in windows add printers just by it doing an local network printer scan? Now what if you are at a place with pay printing or printers that use some kind of AD lockdown / windows based pay printing but you don't know that (say they have free wifi) and windows just auto finds the printer / jet direct card did you just brake the law?
The 80's called... they want their prank back.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
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.
He wasn't incarcerated simply for 'revealing' the problems with ATT's lousy security. He was incarcerated because he took advantage of the problems to download as much information as possible on other customers. Not the same thing.
If I leave my car unlocked on a city street, I'm an idiot. If you steal it, you are still a thief. It seems like the same principle applies to his latest exploit.
"hacking a printer" maybe the pay system by just useing the open door to get past it.
Now let's say an hotel has payed breakfast but it's some what hidden as where that is listed and there is no on at the wide open door to the breakfast room and no system to stop people from useing the door at all?
A former Jew turned neo-Communist is running for Presidency of the US. Big deal...
(OMG, did I just say it out loud? What an overrated flamebaiting troll... Off-topic too!)
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
SJWs will call anybody a "racist", "homophobe", "misogynist", or "anti-Semite" these days; these terms have become meaningless. Apparently, I'm a homophobic and xenophobic gay immigrant.
did you just brake the law?
Woah... Slow down there cowboy!
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What self loathing will make some people do.
Time makes more converts than reason
I think of some car analogy with public stuff that is wide open to any but was not meant to be.
Like an semi official ramp that let's you unknowingly skip a toll they say it's maintenance use only but's not signed or very poorly signed and it shows up on GPS's and places like google maps.
Back ways into parking lot's that are not meant to be used but are and do show up on GPS's and places like google maps.
Permanent parking only lot's that are not singed / very poor singed / look like are for local businesses (but are really for some other uses or employees only) and look like ones that any one can use.
Private roads that look like real ones and show up on GPS's and places like google maps.
Now in cases like that they can try to throw the book at but will it stick?
Forth coming FBI indictment claim of damages: $17,000,000.32
the hacker is a former Jew turned neo-nazi
Okay guys, you're born a Jew or your are not born a Jew. If your mother was a Jew, you're a jew. If you're mother wasn't a Jew, You aren't a Jew. Its not something you get to pick.
Contrary to what Madonna thinks, Jews don't get to choose to be Jews and Catholics don't get to follow 'some' of the rules. You either are or aren't, there is no in-between.
Following Judaism doesn't make you a Jew, it makes you a follower of Judaism. Being born to a mother who is of Jewish decent makes you a Jew and you're a Jew for life in that case.
So, just for reference and clarity ... Any jew who calls himself a neo-nazi ... is ignorant moron who has no fucking clue what he's talking about. How fucking stupid can you get. Let me guess, he also has brown here and brown eyes and thinks the Aryan is going to rule the world ... with their blonde hair and blue eyes ... right?
Fucking moron.
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... and then, the day came when Slashdot put GNAA leaders' articles on the frontpage, giving them attention.
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My understanding is the hotel can ask you to leave, and if you don't, only then does it become a problem. If you go in, pick up a few muffins, and leave, and nobody tells you to stop, it seems like you'd be in the clear. I tried searching for someone being arrested for eating a hotel's breakfast, but the only stories that come up are a) a guy who was chased off, then came back and pretended to be a cop; and b) a woman who refused to leave, then punched a hotel employee. So they weren't arrested for eating the breakfast, but for trespass (refusing to leave) and impersonation and assault.
like the videos of floppy drives or dot matrix music.
I want the printers to play funky town. printing nazi crap is lame. I assume to make a printer stepper motor do that would actually take a bit of hacking, more than sending a specific file to print.
Should have just stuck to quietly replacing every instance of the word "strategic" printed with the word "satanic."
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It looks like sending him to prison the first time was counter-productive. What a surprise.
For those who don't know, weev is a member of a group that calls themselves the GNAA They formed over a decade ago for the purpose of committing abuse on Slashdot and other places. Every wonder why Slashdot scans you for being an open proxy before you post? That's because they abused unsecured proxies to flood Slashdot with thousands of spam comments. They flooded many other blogs in the same way, with the same spam inviting people to join their group. I suspect the message being flooded to printers is probably pretty close to the typical spam that gets posted to Slashdot. The background on weev actually explains a lot; the old messages used to include text like, "lol, jews did wtc," which clearly the antisemitism associated with weev. While they claim to be a security organization and spawned "Goatse Security," they're mostly a bunch of immature script kiddies looking to cause as much trouble as possible.
Note: Shame on you, Slashdot. Apparently I can't even post "Gay Niggger Association of America" (misspelling is intentional, to avoid the lameness filter), which happens to be ontopic and very relevant here. I understand the desire to get rid of spam, but surely there's a better way to stop it.
He'll have a direct line to "hack" critical hardware inside banks, law and investment firms, medical labs and offices and the even the Pentagon.
We're obviously doomed.
I would have pumped a stock or something.
The IoT insecurity issue is one that needed highlighting in a way that people would notice, without any real harm being done. If this makes people close a few holes and go looking for others then it is without doubt a very good thing.
He could have done much worse, there are pieces of information that would fit onto a single page that could actually do a lot of harm if violent sociopaths got hold of it. So I see the Neo-Nazism thing as just an advertising ploy, like the sound of a door bell, microwave beep or phone ringing etc. in TV advertisements, a trigger. It makes you stop and take note, but it isn't the real message.
He wouldn't need to use such ploys if most people were not so shallow and ignorant in the first place. Then again advertising would not work either, if the majority of people were intelligent.
Does this guy also think it's okay to sit in someone's car and imagine themselves on a road trip if they leave their doors unlocked, or walk into someone's garage and start cataloging their possessions if they leave their roll-up door open overnight?
I am sure he could have had the printers spew out plenty of things that would go unreported... as long as they were politically correct.
I am sure this guy violated FAX spamming and unauthorized computer access laws, but, on a related note the USA now punishes thought crimes.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
made by Microsoft. It's called "Surface" and only will cost taxpayers $9K.
Brilliant!
How damn effective prison gangs can be at "integrating" a person
Weev made a much more sympathetic figure when he was busy being a symbol of prosecutorial overreach and badly designed computer security laws. He's a lot less sympathetic as a committed white supremacist troll. Also see: This is why we can't have nice things.
Because hacker. No need to look at anything else. It's the law!
Ah, that's our Joe. He's sometimes got novel things to say but at least he now uses a spell checker. Surely, you've seen him post before, right?
His grasp of the English language is different than what you or I have. In his defense, he does have a grasp on it and he does horrible things with it. Horrible, shameless, unspeakable things.
But, he's finally enabled spell check. That's enough to make me happy. Well, it makes me happy except when his spell check lets "payed" (I hate that spelling) through or lets him slide on homonyms. It's still a huge improvement.
So, thank you Joe, for using that spell check. I've been posting AC to him for ages and I appreciate how far he's come.
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According to Israel, the only way to stop being a Jew is to become a Christian - though the Nazis didn't agree.
Also according to Israel, conversion by an Orthodox Rabbi makes you a proper Jew. One of the hot topics is whether Reform Rabbi's conversion are acceptable - at the moment they are not.
Sending jobs to open printers in the Internet without any kind of authentication is "hacking"? Slashdot, what have you became...
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.
There was hacking involved here? That's not hacking, there was no "creatively overcoming and circumventing limitations of systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes". Heavy emphasis on the word circumventing and novel here. He made use of unsecured systems that were open for anybody to use to print stuff in the intended way. But even if the nature of the material may have been offensive, it was still covered by the 1st amendment. The worst they can do is blame him for using the printers without the owner's permission and bill him for the wasted ink and paper. If he'd printed pictures of Miley Cyrus' bare butt instead of hateful racist bullshit he'd get off with a slap on the wrist for a frat party prank that went out of hand and would have to spend a few hours of community service mopping up vomit at a hospital or scooping up turds in dog-shit part.
Everything is hacking as soon as someone calls it hacking. Everyone is a hacker as soon as someone says the word. It's the digital equivalent of a bogeyman. It is indeed short-hand for either "I don't know what I'm saying but I want to sound impressive" or "I'm trying to scare you here, heck I might be scared myself", or both.
Does that make the terms entirely meaningless? Why yes, yes it does. Why do vapid outfits like softpedia, and the whole of the computer security industry for that matter, even American Lawmakers, keep on using the terms anyway? You tell me.
It's like having a piano that's now in tune, but he's still hitting the wrong keys.
If by pure chance he hits the right keys, he hits them in the wrong order.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Both Racist AND Anti-Semitic messages? ... That means anti-semetism isnt racism!
Just because he's got a funny "hacker name" doesn't mean he's newsworthy.
NT
Racism is groundless hate based only on race.
1) If you have reasons to dislike certain groups (e.g. based on statistics [1]), then this is not racism.
2) Criticism is not hate.
[1] like ones saying that blacks commit 50% of murders in USA while being only 13% of the population. Which scientifically proves them to be way more aggressive.
Stop being a liberal already. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
-- Ed
AKA "undercover" hasbara troll.
The problem is he port scanned to find the printers. The law in many places views that as going to every house in a town and checking to see if the front door is unlocked. Even if it is, all you did was avoid a "breaking an entering" charge but are still guilty of trespass.
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at least people will know who is really behind all this hacking hoopla and stop blaming poor people in Russia, China, Ukraine, etc.
Mmm, then are mDNS, uPNP, SSDP or any other service broadcast technology a form of luring the curious or even entrapment ?
I wouldn't call this hacking...more like sending spam. He blasted a message to any device who would listen, and those that responded printed out what he sent.
...I thought they were called "reesearchers"??
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1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one.
3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.
4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous.
5. According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.
6. Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.
7. Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBQT – affirming countries.
8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Seriously, what an asshole.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Weev is a fucking pussy
Sending a one-line Bash command to an open port isn't hacking.
He might have Jewish heritage. (Although it's not clear that is even the case.) But that doesn't make him a Jew, as Judaism is a religion.
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It's already illegal to send spam faxes. That is essentially what he's done. If they want to charge him with something, they should start there, instead of typical unauthorized access to a network or some such bs.
You are forgetting intent.
If I'm Jewish enough for Hitler, I can join in. A silly boy made a prank who has nasty beliefs. Nothing new here, move along. Just don't give them guns.
The devices were put in free-game mode. Granted, maybe not every admin was aware of the fact (more like "not still employed") but that doesn't change the reality of the first point.
The devices were put in free-game mode, possibly with the awareness that Some Punk Kid might do something obnoxious, and thus ruin it for everyone by breaking the Have Nice Things implied-truce. A risk to acknowledge and accept because some of us are just fucking nice and do shit like that anyway, strange as that may seem to the modern American mind. I'm pretty sure lots "art experiments" go even further about exposed stuff..
THIS is the obligatory XKCD, which is to say weev did something permitted but is still a dick. It even reminds us that society has ways of reacting; laws from a nanny state are appropriate for crimes but not for correcting manner.
https://xkcd.com/1499/
Sending a print job to a printer port is not "hacking" except perhaps to an overzealous prosecutor with only a vague understanding of modern technology.
If by pure chance he hits the right keys, he hits them in the wrong order.
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It would be kind of amusing to create a public printer that generates PDFs just to see what people might print. You'd have to have some basic protection to limit the number/size/amount of documents printed, and probably have it on some read-only system that couldn't get exploited.
But it might be entertaining to see what got printed.
The tragedy of this thing is that the dumb guy chose to bulk print offensive stupidity.
Much more enjoyable would have been a more calculated strategy to create some kind of apparent conspiracy by "accidentally" printing apparently real documents, and carefully distributing the "pieces" like some kind of puzzle, distributing them across the country (or even world) and/or altering the "message" to have it appear that your fake conspiracy had some geographic movement or flavor.
An obvious (and probably not believable one) would be messages tracking victims of a zombie outbreak.
He sent a print job to a bunch of printers, doing exactly what a printer driver would do, to a bunch of unsecured devices. Big deal. Stop glorifying this as some masterful hack simply because of scale.
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.
How about your Father is full blood Cherokee and your Mother is full blood Creek. So you the child are either 1/2 Cherokee or 1/2 Creek. You can't claim tribal rights but to one tribe. So now your are only 1/2 Native American. So neither of your parents signed up on the rolls so now your and Indian that isn't an Indian any more. Why? No BIA card. Can't be a real Indian without a BIA card. Without the card I guess you genes change and what are you? Your not black, white, Jew, or Asian. /dev/null I guess.
This is real about some friends of mine.
A friend of mine is 1/2 Cheyenne and 1/2 Pawnee he married a woman who is 1/2 Navajo and 1/2 Plebeo. The woman is registered on the Navajo rolls as 1/2 Navajo. When they have a child and the child is registered with the Navajo tribe she is 1/4 Navajo. Now if this child grows up and say marries a Cherokee her children will now be below the required 1/4 blood quantum required to be Navajo so now you have a full blood Indian that isn't an Indian. Yes it is Federal law that makes this so.
By Federal law three things are measured by blood quantum, dogs, horses, and Indians.
And you Hebrews thought you had it bad.
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Huh?
Is that why you post anonymously? So that I can not refer to your post history?
Exactly! Which is why I claim, the differences between Communism and Socialism are merely quantitative (as opposite to qualitative) — you may still own a toothbrush under Socialism, but not a restaurant. And if you are lucky to own a car, you can not use it to make money — because that turns it into "means of production".
That "expansion" you mentioned happens gradually but inevitably as Individuals gradually lose rights to the amorphous Collective represented by the more equal.
Irrelevant. Not going into fine points of variations (Stalinism vs. Leninism vs. Trotskyism vs. Maoism vs. whoeverism). Though their adherents would kill the others over these fine points, all of them are disastrous to any country, where attempted in earnest.
If you wish to continue this lovely discussion, please:
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