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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.
"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.
Printer with public internet ip? why?
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...
"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?
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.
Time makes more converts than reason
So where is your swastika tattoo? On your skin and/or in your brain?
Why is Snark Required?
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?
You've clearly never worked in higher ed. Very Important Professors like to hand a (grad) student a printer and tell them to "set it up" -- by which they mean plug it in, find an IP it can sit on (probably squatting on someone else's but who cares it mostly works), install it on the prof's machine, and get back to that research said student is supposed to be doing.
You will note the IT folks were never involved in this sequence.
Slashdot Patriotism: We Support our Dupes!
Funny, it doesn't look very defunct. Then again, it might look that way to an outsider, especially since it's basically won. Sites that were unethical, spouting garbage or running identity politics are either gone or suffering heavily financially. People who parroted those views have either quit or been fired, or moved down in the world to even worse sites. Not only can't you stop mentioning it, the media can't either. There's still 1-2 stories nearly every day about it. I think my personal favorite is how gamergate is now all the evils of the internet and worse then 4chan all rolled into one. Never mind of course that Weev was never a e-celeb or proponent. He was a successful troll in some aspects but that's it. Note how many articles there are spouting his pov...a whole not even one page of results from one of the main gamergate hubs. Yep, such a huge following, not only that but he's labeled as exactly who he is right off the bat. A member of GNAA, and his view points are spelt out right too.
One also can't forget that gamergate unlike those on the regressive left or regressive right doesn't believe in identity politics being the answer, rather that identity politics is cancer. Which means if someone has a good idea, it doesn't matter who they actually are. But, then again you've got all those people on the regressive left side of the spectrum that are pedophile defenders or openly pedophiles, that you like to rally around.
Om, nomnomnom...
Good thing you said "act". What he did is hardly hacking unless we want to claim getting things to do what they were design to do hacking just because the owners had no clue they set it up to do it.
Seriously. . Port scanning and sending a file is called a hack now?
Ah yes, claiming a win after an astonishingly thorough defeat. Reminds me of something:
So who were they defeated by? Looks like to me you're pretty damn salty that a leaderless grassroots revolt against shitty journalists that ran their own giant story/article writing collusion group akin to Journolist(which was called Gamejournopros). The leaks from that easily show exactly how much collusion was going on in that. And you're also very salty at just how these incestuous people were caught giving giving hand outs to their friends, people they were shacked up with, or fucking. Sure does speak a lot about people who don't give a shit that they're being lied to, and like it instead.
Like Gawker, right?
Well GG has never actually claimed for gawker, except costing them 7 figures in ad-revenue and showing people exactly how shitty they are. And showing advertisers exactly how shitty companies like Gawker are. You know, Gawker the same site that believes that bullying people is good. For a group of supposedly evil people though, GG's response was to donate to an anti-bullying campaign. But anti-GG? Oh they were right out there supporting what ol'Sam was saying. But other sites? Yep. Some are just significant drops in traffic, others have closed for good.
No, they just believe in "ethics" as defined by (a) making shit up about people, (b) doxxing them and (c) the hate campaign,
So who have they made shit up about? I'll wait. I'm sure you're going to try trotting out something on Quinn. You know, the same piece of shit that filed multiple false DMCA claims, and then slapped order against her ex because he pointed out that she was a domestic abuser, and was trying to warn others away from her. Also, who has GG doxxed? I'm sure they'll be forthcoming. I'll be happy to point out various anti-GG individuals who have openly doxxed people, and continue to do so to this day. Oh, like that prominent anti-GG person Graham Lineham. FYI, one of the most prominent anti-GG people was arrested a few months back for trying to tell a terrorist how to build a bomb. But they also wrote for big name progressive sites, and as a feminist too.
And what hate? Find it. Because I'll tell you something, anti-GG's have done a very good job of attacking anyone who refuses to fall in line with their group think. I think my person favorite is when anti-GGers decided the "if you're supporting GG, and you're a minority/women/etc., you're a racist/sexist/homophobes." But that's really all their arguments boil down to anyway, trying to claim that they're being harassed and screaming that people are racist/sexist/homophobes because they're losing an argument or being shown that they're actually the shitty people out there. I think my favorite out of all of that has been when Quinn and Sarkeesian ran to the UN crying about how demands for proof of their statements and criticism of their work was harassment.
The entire thing has done a wonderful job of proving how many people can't be bothered to actually read the news beyond what they're being told. Then again, I kinda like this bit too. Where people starting saying "muslims are terrorists," the media will start screaming "not all muslims are terrorists, you're just islamophobic!!!" But if one person in GG does something wrong, all of GG has done something wrong. Yep, no agenda there at all.
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From: http://www.acpeds.org/about-us
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Core Values of the College
The American College of Pediatricians:
Recognizes that there are absolutes and scientific truths that transcend relative social considerations of the day.
Recognizes that good medical science cannot exist in a moral vacuum and pledges to promote such science.
Recognizes the fundamental mother-father family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for the development and nurturing of children and pledges to promote this unit.
Recognizes the unique value of every human life from the time of conception to natural death and pledges to promote research and clinical practice that provides for the healthiest outcome of the child from conception to adulthood.
Recognizes the physical and emotional benefits of sexual abstinence until marriage and pledges to promote this behavior as the ideal for adolescence.
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The American College of Pediatricians is a fraud. They've got around two hundred members, and were formed by a group who left the respected American Academy of Pediatrics in protest after that organisation endorsed gay marriage. The purpose of the organisation, the sole reason upon which they were founded, was to provide a legitimate-seeming medical front for those who have religious or moral objections to any deviation from their strictly heterosexual norm.
It's an example of the rich tradition of political pressure groups taking names that sound non-political, because people are instantly suspicious of anything an overtly political group says.