Daily Archives: December 3, 2018

Twitter user hacks 50,000 printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie

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A Twitter user using the pseudonym of @TheHackerGiraffe has hacked over 50,000 printers to print out flyers telling people to subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel.

The messages have been sent out yesterday, November 29, and have caused quite the stirr among the users who received them, as they ended up on a bunch of places, from high-end multi-functional printers at large companies to small handheld receipt printers at gas stations and restaurants.

The only condition was that the printer was connected to the Internet, used old firmware, and had “printing” ports left exposed online.

The message the printers received was a simple one. It urged people to subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel in order for PewDiePie –a famous YouTuber from Sweden, real name Felix Kjellberg– to keep the crown of most subscribed to YouTube channel.

If this sounds …odd… it’s because over the past month, an Indian record label called T-Series has caught up and surpassed PewDiePie, once considered untouchable in terms of YouTube followers.

The Swedish Youtube star made a comeback after his fans banded together in various social media campaigns, but T-Series is catching up with PewDiePie again.

Source: Twitter user hacks 50,000 printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie | ZDNet

EU anti Geo-blocking comes into force: unlocking e-commerce in the EU

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Under the new rules, traders will not be able to discriminate between customers with regard to the general terms and conditions – including prices – in three cases: for goods that are either delivered in a member state to which the trader offers delivery or are collected at a location agreed with the customer for electronically supplied services such as cloud, data warehousing and website hosting for services such as hotel accommodation and car rental which are received by the customer in the country where the trader operates

Under the new rules, traders will not be able to discriminate between customers with regard to the general terms and conditions – including prices – in three cases:

  • for goods that are either delivered in a member state to which the trader offers delivery or are collected at a location agreed with the customer
  • for electronically supplied services such as cloud, data warehousing and website hosting
  • for services such as hotel accommodation and car rental which are received by the customer in the country where the trader operates

Source: Geo-blocking: unlocking e-commerce in the EU – Consilium

Geo-blocking refers to practices used by online sellers that result in the denial of access to websites from other Member States. It also includes situations where access to a website is granted, but the customer from abroad is prevented from finalising the purchase or being asked to pay with a debit or credit card from a certain country. “Geo-discrimination” also takes place when buying goods and services off-line, e.g. when a consumer is physically present at the trader’s location but is either prevented from accessing a product or service or being offered different conditions.

The Geo-blocking Regulation aims to provide for more opportunities to consumers and businesses within the EU’s internal market. In particular, it addresses the problem of (potential) customers not being able to buy goods and services from traders located in a different Member State for reasons related to their nationality, place of residence or place of establishment, hence discriminating them when they try to access the best offers, prices or sales conditions compared to nationals or residents of the traders’ Member State.u

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/geo-blocking

Above FAQ link has  more answers to questions