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In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they shouldn’t have been. He wanted to raise awareness of this problem, and got himself into a whole heap of trouble.

Why are local printers being hacked for this pic.twitter.com/fAnNTIp6ds — maddy (@maddyuhhh) November 29, 2018

If you’re going to be a hacktivist, follow the advice in this video to conduct proper OpSec.

Guest

Very special thanks goes to The Hacker Giraffe for sharing their story.

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Additional music by Epidemic Sound.

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JACK: Today we’re going to talk with a wanted man.

GIRAFFE: Hi. I’m Hacker Giraffe.

JACK: He’s responsible for doing some hacking that’s hit the news in the last few months.

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