The Internet of Things is all fun and games until a racist takes over your printer

The IT departments at universities around the country just got a wake-up call about their exposed Internet-enabled printers. Last week, thousands of connected printers, largely at U.S. colleges and universities, began printing out racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant messages. In all cases, the printers had port 9100 exposed, and turned up in searches using Masscan, a mass