Anonymous has hacked unsecured printers across Russia, and proceeded to mass print information

[L. Coyote]

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

1. Brilliant!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Indeed the word that comes to mind. . . .nt

[FM123]

2. Good! Perhaps the printer is mightier than the sword....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Pen mightier than sword; printer mightier than tank

In the Soviet Union, printers were tightly controlled for just these reasons.

[FM123]

51. Oh yes!

[tanyev]

3. Wow. Genius.

[lagomorph777]

4. OMG...talk about buying ink by the barrel...

...and getting somebody else to pay for it!

[ismnotwasm]

6. Good,

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. Now that's brilliant!

Well done!

[sky_masterson]

9. Right now thousands of scared Russians

are burning these as to not get busted reading them.

[Steven Maurer]

12. While the majority burn them because they're in favor of the war

Don't imagine for a second that most Russians aren't filled with the same kind of arrogant triumphalism that US conservatives are known for.

[KS Toronado]

23. Lot of Russians are in favor of Putler and whatever he does

What percentage, I have no idea.

[reACTIONary]

28. I read somewhere....

... about 70%. I can't remember where, and, of course, your polling methodology is not going to be up to the standards of a free, democratic society. But if correct, 30% against is really remarkable.

[PatrickforB]

39. It is a majority, which is quite sad, but I tend to question a hard 70% figure.

While 'official' state polls give Putin ~71% popular support for the war, WaPo reports that a group of independent pollsters found that about 58 percent of Russians approve of the invasion of Ukraine, while 23 percent oppose it.

We may credibly estimate that Putin's actual war support by citizens within the four walls of their own flats could be as high as 60%. If this is the case, then 4 in 10 Russians oppose. Support will very likely deteriorate in the same way Russian support of their war in Afghanistan. Any drawn out war with high casualties saps support on the home front. Look at Vietnam for us.

On a personal note, while I do recognize there are times when a people must fight, I feel that war is the ultimate stupidity, because it is generally not driven by ideals but by profits. Make no mistake - the military industrial complex is doing very well out of this war.

[Steven Maurer]

44. Russia is losing army faster than they can resupply...

Setting aside the civilian casualties from the war crimes Russians forces are committing, they're being absolutely - literally - blasted.

If their losses keep up at the rate they currently are, there won't be a land-military left in Russia by summer. Or much of an air force either.

Defense contractors didn't cause this war. Russian arrogance and classic imperialism did.

[NJCher]

41. Yes, I heard about them

On npr. It is splitting up families in Russia, just like it has here in the u.s.

[ancianita]

10. This looks like something the No Such Agency wing of Anonymous would do.

[Hekate]

14. I actually hope so, in this case

[wnylib]

11. Excellent! I hope it is effective in making

Russian people will at least question what is going on.

I think that initially they are likely to reject the information as foreign propaganda. But they will wonder why anyone is taking so much trouble to get this information to them. They will pay more attention to protesters, talk to people who have sons serving in the military, and try to get information from friends outside of the country.

The truth will eventually sink in.

[Hekate]

13. 🌻 To quote TFG: Very savvy! Genius! 🌻

[calimary]

16. Hah! Good one!

But in this context it’s perfect!

This is the kind of devious strategic thinking I wish our Dems would have.

[L. Coyote]

15. Companies, "Pull out of Russia! We give you 48 hours to reflect ...."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

This tweet from 22 hours ago:

Link to tweet

[calimary]

17. I'm really starting to love the Anonymous folks!

[DENVERPOPS]

19. Does it surprise anyone

that the companies shown as still doing business in Russia are some of the deepest red/republican corporations in the U.S.?????
And are all known as MAJOR Corporate Republican campaign donors and republican "think tank" and republican PAC organizers and sponsors/??????????????????

Talk about, quite literally, giving aid to the enemy..............

What scum of the earth...............

The Kiss of Death to the U.S. citizens and Democracy:

"U.S. Supreme Court Decision: On January 21, 2010, the court issued a 5–4 decision in favor of Citizens United that struck down the BCRA's restrictions on independent expenditures from corporate treasuries as violations of the First Amendment.

[yardwork]

48. Citizens United was indeed the kiss of death for our democracy.

[DENVERPOPS]

50. No shit

And I find that if I ask people, Repubs and Dems alike, that 99% can't answer my question about how the Citizen's United USSC decision has effected our Democracy............

A perfect title for a book about the past forty+ years would be:

WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

[ancianita]

20. Gotta love that harassment of corporations angle. Still, many are food industries, and Russians

suffer without food; perhaps Anonymous would happily hack into nightly state TV news, and tell Russians that they should leave for Ukraine, where the whole world is supplying food.

[monkeyman1]

21. love how twitty won't let --

you read their garbage site unless you join it !!

[yesphan]

47. The tweet with the comapny logos

spells out the word RUSSIA. Clever.

[ToxMarz]

18. Excellent, and note to self

check and see if your printer is secure.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Jeez what a brilliant idea! Kudos

[NQAS]

24. An idea

What if anonymous could publish texts/emails promoting liberal positions as if they were coming from Q? These would start with an explanation for the switch, such as Putin’s war crimes eclipsing any political conflicts between left and right.

And then inundate the cultists with views on conflict with previous Q dots of whatever they call them and in conflict with radical Christian terrorism.

I have no idea how anonymous does its hacking so this might be utterly ridiculous.

[PatSeg]

25. Wow, it is like a movie!

[NJCher]

42. I know!

I am so hooked I have to watch tv all the time!

[bif]

26. Way cool!

Great job folks!

[BGBD]

27. Ok.....

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Randomly printing messages to 150 printers in a nation of 144 million people?

Of that likely none are being read. If you found your printer randomly printing stuff that you didn't ask it to, would you believe the message?


It doesn't feel like what they have done so far is having really impact on Russia.

[txwhitedove]

29. If my printer started printing by itself, I'd be shocked and certainly read the pages.

Planting seeds...

[BGBD]

35. Aldo consider they are likely office printers on a network.

So it would be like showing up to the printer and somebody left copies there..

I'd probably take my copies and not touch the rest

[FSogol]

32. I'm a skeptical on this too. Most of Anonymous' accomplishments are self-reported & not verifiable.

Yay Pranks, I guess.

[BGBD]

36. This most of what they ever do.

They promise they aree going to do something big and then Warcraft goes down for an hour

[NJCher]

43. Not so

A couple days ago a study of what they claimed to do was reported. It checked out.

As the poster above pointed out, this is planting the seed.

Furthermore, I think people will read it. I once worked for a big corporation that tried to persuade its 14,000 employees to vote for bush. I resented it and sent out a message to printers all over the business campus about how snakey I thought it was. I got a friend in IT to help me so I wouldn’t get caught and lose my job.

The next day EVERYONE was talking about my communication. Everywhere—in the elevators, the cafeteria, in the halls. I heard our admins whispering about it. Made me feel great.

[SKKY]

31. Many, many printers are not password protected or have default SNMP strings, or haven't...

...blocked ports like 69 (TFTP) and such that give someone easy access. This is just Anonymous clearing their throats.

[Cha]

33. Rt💕🤷‍♂️TY & Anonymous!

💙💛

[Blue Owl]

34. Suck it Vladdy

Then stick a loaded gun up your ass

[Martin68]

37. I'd be vey intersted to see a transcript of the message that was printed.

[L. Coyote]

38. I don't read Russian.

[monkeyman1]

40. wish someone could put this in English ?

[cstanleytech]

45. I wish they would be able to uncover evidence proving that varies politicians in the US have

knowingly been working as agents for the Russian government as well as other dirty deeds they might have committed.
That would go a long way towards making it easier for Biden as well as a number of others to deal with the Putin problem preferably permanently.

[L. Coyote]

46. I was just thinking we need a new film about elections, voter suppression, coups, THE GREAT STEAL.

The Orwellians called their coup attempt Stop the Steal for a reason, to coverup the coup and the fact they were trying to steal democracy. That wasn't happening apart from the interventions and assistance of Russia, it was a GREAT COLLUSION to upend democracy. The steal succeeded in Belarus, in Ukraine for a while, in the UK to a degree with Brexit, and all these events are interlinked, the weakening of the West and Western unity, along with weakening of the NATO defensive alliance. Now the plot is laid bare and the struggle is out in the open, not a good thing for the criminal, global mafia. It is beginning to seem we are living a James Bond movie.

[LAS14]

49. In response to the many posts illustrating why these won't be read....

.... This will be talked about! Word will get out and the "prank" will be talked about. It's certainly being talked about here!