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by pavelmelnichuk 3423 days ago
Your ellipsis suggests to are disagreeing with the original comment, else what you wrote is just a truism. The point of the original comment was that it was authorized by default as intended by design, and thus not a "hack."
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Yup. Sending a print-job to an open printing port isn't special and IMHO doesn't rise to be anything remotely close to "Hacking" or "Hacked". Everything is essentially working as designed, but just poorly implemented. It's similar to how DDoS isn't "Hacking".
I think Dayshine is disagreeing with the 'interesting' or 'novel' requirement of the top level comment.
The design intended for random strangers to be able to print angry robots?