<story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egypturnash</author><text>This gave me hope when I saw it yesterday morning. For once, some news that sounded like something the &lt;i&gt;heros&lt;/i&gt; of a cyberpunk novel would have been doing, instead of another corporation being even more horrible than a supposedly-parodic fictional corporation with a technology to abuse for profit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>Goofy employees shouldn&amp;#x27;t be ruled out, either. I added fake menu items that printed from fortune, employee quotes, ASCII art, etc that went unnoticed and unchanged for years.&lt;p&gt;The items were originally created as printer tests, but it became too useful to prebuild regular catering orders, add delivery directions, and import internal notes like regular or VIP preferences from CRM. This also meant if you created a new customer profile, you could create a menu item tied to it that you could program to send to any printer, which probably four out of a few hundred ever did anything funny with.</text></comment>