If Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were alive today, they might hack into the corporate receipt printer to make a Communist manifesto.
This is clearly happening. In some employers, workers have reported anti-work declarations randomly printed on receipts. A report from Vice revealed that someone hacked into the receipt printers of at least dozens of companies to send spam to these pro-workers.
“Is your salary low?” Read a receipt. “You have a protected legal right to discuss compensation with colleagues.”
“Start to organize a union,” another said. “Good employers are not afraid of this, but abusive employers are afraid.”
The manifesto led readers to subreddit r/antiwork, a widely discussed community dedicated to combating labor abuse and workers’ rights, and many receipt posts began to emerge.
“Yo, these have been randomly printed out in my work,” one user wrote, “Which one of you did this because it’s fun. My colleagues and I need answers.”
However, some people seem to be a little annoyed by the declaration, and another user said, “I like r/antiwork, but please stop sending spam to my receipt printer.”
The identity of the hacker-or hacker-remains a mystery. However, Andrew Morris, the founder of the network security company GreyNoise, told Vice that the person who hacked the printer was doing this “in a smart way.”
“A technician is broadcasting a print request for a file containing workers’ rights messages to all printers that are misconfigured to be exposed on the Internet,” Morris told the website. He added that although he could not confirm exactly how many printers were hacked, he believed that “thousands of printers were exposed.”
It is great to see that there are some cyberpunk radicals in the world who are honest with God. After all, this is an aggressive hacker, trying to destroy a big company with a computer and a simple message: rise up against your capitalist, the overlord of the big company-one receipt at a time.
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Post time: Dec-09-2021
