Sometimes the simplest tricks are the least expected…
The year was 2003. After defeating Bess the security dog, A putty attack was launched and began crashing a list of print spool servers one by one. The silver library was a warm up. Blue was child’s play. Tech academy had one visible. The color printer too. The expensive ink printer! The one everyone needed permission to ever use… Was it even working? *People are heard complaining to each other about the printers not working. Well, well. We sure don’t know anything about THAT. It seems the print file history has recently been purged as well. Interesting. *People are heard saying the printer is working again! Right on time! This girl really needed to print her report because it is due today! WHATS THIS?! A FISH! It worked fine just before! Why is there a FISH printed over top of MY project?! The printer has a FISH VIRUS!? “NO way it’s gotta be your file!” “How can this be?” The instructor… Let’s just call him CHUCK NORRIS reboots the printer. OK what-ur-name girl lets try to print again. MORE FISH! Reboots the printer again and scuttles to his command terminal. Time to inspect the network traffic! CCNA POWERS ACTIVATE!!! Who is responsible for this strange traffic?! Proxy on proxy on proxy on Proxy and TIMEOUT…m/s. ???!
In actuality, someone had simply snuck in early, printed 69 copies of this exact fish, reloaded the printer with fish paper with some normal paper on top as a delay, and somehow covered the tracks. Someone. A simple and strangely effective trick. Why didn’t they check the paper tray first?! 😀