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Sysadmin finds insecure printer, remotely prints 'Fix Me!' notice

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: University printers

"every PC - and yes, the printers - in the department had real-world public IP addresses"

Just because the address is routable doesn't mean it is routed. I imagine that anyone outside that university's network would have some difficulty in sending so much as a ping packet to a host inside it.

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