question about getting hacked
 

the other day i got hacked by somebody.all of a sudden my printer fired up and it printed "We're watching you.." a minute late it printed "..and we know..". Ive since installed a heavy duty firewall. my question is was this a hacker,my network administrater(i'm at a college), or the RIAA/MPAA? i was downloading something off bittorrent at the time so i guess they could have gotten my ip address from there. any body know what happned?

I've actually did this to someone at my college. It's incredibly easy. I'll wager a hefty sum that your printer is shared on the network, and someone simply printed those documents on your printer over the network.

I made a page that said "bring this to blah blah dorm room blah if you get it" and about 3 hours later this guy comes in saying his printer turned on by itself. It's simple; just create a text document and choose a printer off of the network to print it.

If your printer isn't shared, then it does sound like a hacker.

-Lasereth

thank god i had printer sharing hooked up from back when my comp was in the network at home i feel better now.

any way i can figure out who did it?

You may have fixed the printer sharing but we're still watching you.

I doubt it.

and i just looked at my printer folder and found 2 other printers there!

maybe i should do this to them :D

check the print que, on my server it records who printed, but youll only get a machine name or an ip address probably.

I remember when I was on a campus network a couple of years ago and my computer would occasionally flash a new hardware detected message for a shared printer it found on the network. I should have printed some gay porn on the guys printer just to mess with them.

You could use netsend to send a message to the entire network. And then ask who printed on your computer. :D

Of course you probably don't want everyone with Windows XP to have your IP Address, they might return the favor if you still have messenger installed. ;)

use a proxy to disguise your ip with the net send

(will that work?)

i have mac os x but i also have xp in an emulater so any suggestions for me now(since i could probanly use this to my advantage)