Dozens of printers across the internet are printing out a manifesto that encourages workers to discuss their pay with coworkers and pressure their employers. According to the reports, one of the manifestos read, "Are you being underpAID?" You have a legal right to discuss your pay with your coworkers. A user on the website wrote that the manifesto was being printed randomly at his job. The user wrote that one of them was doing it because it was funny. "My co-workers and I need answers."
The r/ antiwork subreddit is being accused of being involved in a conspiracy to make it seem like it is doing something illegal. Andrew Morris, the founder of GreyNoise, a cybersecurity firm that monitors the internet, said that his firm has seen network traffic going to insecure receipt printers, and that it seems someone or multiple people are sending these printing jobs all over the internet. Morris has caught people exploiting printers. Morris said someone is using a similar technique to blast raw data directly to printer services across the internet. Every single device that has port 9100 open and a pre-written document can be used to reference workers rights and counter capitalist messaging.
Morris said that whoever is doing this is doing it in an intelligent way. He said that the person or people behind this are distributing the mass-print from 25 separate server so blocking one IP isn't enough. Shodan suggests that thousands of printers are exposed to the internet and that a technical person is broadcasting print requests for a document containing workers rights messaging to all of them.
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