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ethank on Aug 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" stri...

I did a project in college where I scanned networks for IPP ports and would print agit prop to them

The printer panopticon. Oh art school.

dfranke on Aug 21, 2012 | [–]

Heh... a similar "project" when I was in high school got me sent to the principal's office once :-)

ethank on Aug 22, 2012 | | [–]

Yeah, I got a nice visit from campus security.

eternalban on Aug 21, 2012 | [–]

> ... printer panopticon ...

Oh "BBrother" what an ironic comment this is .. /takes off paranoid hat

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