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Things to do for bored children at home

Wednesday, September 24 2008

1. Go to your networked printer’s administration page.
2. Identify some useful phrases.
3. Check the manual for the default password.
4. Google for unsecured printers on the internet.
5. Change their status message to something amusing.

NOTE: this is naughty and wrong. Do not do this. Unless it’s your parents’ printer.

(Interestingly, these things mostly seem to be at universities. I remember when I worked at a university, it was nigh impossible to forbid people to put unapproved hardware on the network. And as an admin there said to me, the purpose of the firewall was not to protect students from the world out there, but to save to the rest of the world from our students.)

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