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Hacker: I made 160,000 printers spew out ASCII art around the world

Steve Evans

It's either UPNP being it's usual helpful self (i.e. too helpful and opening up everything), or people with absolutely no clue what they're doing and routing ports themselves.

There is *no* reason 99.9% of the printer owning population of the world would want or need their printer to be visible from the intertubes.

The 0.1% who do should be the ones who have to jump through hoops to do it and have it done properly (VPN).

The IoT is going to be a lot of fun for some people.

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