Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A Twitter user using the pseudonym of @TheHackerGiraffe has hacked over 50,000 printers to print out flyers telling people to subscribe to PewDiePie's YouTube channel. The message the printers received was a simple one. It urged people to subscribe to PewDiePie's YouTube channel in order for PewDiePie -- a famous YouTuber from Sweden, real name Felix Kjellberg -- to keep the crown of most subscribed to YouTube channel.

If this sounds ...odd... it's because over the past month, an Indian record label called T-Series has caught up andsurpassed PewDiePie, once considered untouchable in terms of YouTube followers. The Swedish Youtube star made a comeback after his fans banded together in various social media campaigns, but T-Series is catching up with PewDiePie again.

Comments

Re:Like the good old days

[LesFerg]

I'm out of paper, could you fax me some more?

Re:Some "hack"

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering how many of the people in my office can't print to the printer that's been specifically set up for them, it probably sounds like arcane wizardry to most people.

Been there, done that

[spaceyhackerlady]

Some years ago I quietly programmed one of our office printers to display INSERT COIN when it was idle. This confused one of our summer students, but they all tended to be easily confused. It also caused some consternation when my former boss noticed and asked our sysadmin for an explanation.

...laura

Re:Like the good old days

[serviscope_minor]

I'm out of paper, could you fax me some more?

I managed to feed the paper in but the machine broke when I tried to feed the shipping box through. It made that same funny cluking sound as it did when I tried to fax that floppy last week.