This Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers to Show How the Internet of Things Is Shit
Feb 9 2017, 5:50am

“It was just a night I was bored to be honest, doing random shit.”

On Saturday, February 4, 2017, a self-described "pissed off high school student" in the United Kingdom sat in front of his computer, listening to Bones and Yung Lean, coding a rootkit, a set of software tools that allows an unauthorized user to control a computer system. He got to thinking about recent news reports about printer hacking and shifted gears, instead building a short program in C.

Within hours, roughly 150,000 internet-connected printers across the world began spitting out ASCII art and messages informing their owners that their machines were "part of a flaming botnet." The hacker signed his work as "Stackoverflowin."

Throughout the evening and into Sunday, people across the web reported finding the mysterious printouts. Many of the affected printers were connected to restaurant POS systems, leaving confused employees to find ASCII robots pouring out of their receipt printers.

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