Hacker sends anti-Semitic fliers to network printers at Princeton, other colleges

[struggle4progress]

By Mary Hui and Susan Svrluga
March 29

... Academic departments and administrative offices at schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey reported receiving the one-page fliers, which included two swastikas, assailed Jews for “mass immigration and degeneracy” and urged the “white man” to join “in the struggle for global white supremacy.” They included a link to the website of .. a neo-Nazi white supremacist group.

... a self-proclaimed Internet troll and white supremacist, told The Washington Post that he carried out the attack from his home in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, as part of a new effort to distribute his message. He said he was able to print the fliers to at least 20,000 printers across the United States, exploiting vulnerable devices with Internet addresses that are publicly available online ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/29/hacker-sends-anti-semitic-fliers-to-network-printers-at-princeton-many-other-colleges/

[struggle4progress]

1. Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S.

By ALEXANDRA MARKOVICH
MARCH 28, 2016

... A Princeton spokeswoman, Min Pullan, said the fliers were not a question of free speech. “External messages infiltrating our campus is a completely different matter. They are not two things that can be compared,” Ms. Pullan said.

In addition to Princeton, the messages appeared at the University of California, Berkeley; Smith College; Brown University; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Mount Holyoke College ...

Many university printers allow printing from outside their computer networks ...

In response to the fliers, universities have notified the police and begun to conduct investigations ... DePaul University in Chicago .. has turned off remote printing ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/nyregion/hacker-weev-says-he-printed-anti-semitic-and-racist-fliers-at-colleges-across-us.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Anti-Semitism isn't "sexy" enough for discussion.

Some of the responses are interesting. Most people aren't this extreme, but there are still plenty who adhere to this type of thinking.