Rise of cash registers: in the USA hackers forced cash registers to issue manifestos to protect workers instead of checks
An individual hacker or a whole group has begun mass mailing of "anti-worker" manifestos to cash registers and checkers of enterprises around the world. This is supported by the words of people who claim to have seen a printed manifest, a dozen posts on Reddit, and a cybersecurity company that analyzes network traffic on unsecured printers.
"Are you underpaid?" - asks one of the manifestos, according to several screenshots posted on Reddit and Twitter. "You have a protected LEGAL RIGHT to discuss your salary with colleagues. [...] Miserable salaries only exist because people are willing to work for them."
The r / Antiwork subreddit has countless similar messagessome of which contain the same manifest. Others have different messages with the same sentiment about worker empowerment. They all invite the reader of the message to take a look at the subreddit. r / Antiwork, which has grown in size and influence over the past few months as workers began to clamor for increased visibility and organize against workplace abuse.
Some Reddit users have suggested that these posts are fake (that is, printed by people with direct access to a check printer or cash register, and posted to influence Reddit) or part of a conspiracy to give the impression that a subreddit r / Antiwork is doing something illegal.
But Andrew Morris, founder of a cybersecurity company GreyNoise, which monitors the Internet, told Motherboard that his company saw real network traffic going to unsecured receipt printers, and that it looks like someone is actually sending these print jobs all over the Internet indiscriminately.