kieranmjones

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   by kieranmjones 10y ago

   Well yes, he did break the law of course there is no denying that. But in the spirit of what he did he wasn't malicious in that he kicked off a DDoS with these printers or anything more than that, it was of course illegal but at least
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   by kieranmjones 10y ago

   Well I did not know that, presumably that doesn't need port forwarding and is the printer communicating out rather than open ports onto the web?
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   by kieranmjones 10y ago

   Reading the article I found myself dwelling on the quote, "People need to take their printer out of the public internet unless it's needed..." I'm trying to think of a single reason that a printer would need to be expose
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   by kieranmjones 10y ago

   It is sad for sure, he is clearly very skilled but because it doesn't fit into the framework of the national curriculum for computer science or IT he is getting bad grades. It just goes to show that grades aren't everything, I jus
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   by kieranmjones 10y ago

   Even if they start asking for passwords, you can almost certainly rely on them not considering the impact of 2-factor. You could give them the password knowing full well that without confiscating your phone for the duration of the trip they