{"id":599673,"date":"2026-08-21T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599673\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:36:11","slug":"samsung-printer-is-the-next-frontier-of-minecraft-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599673\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Printer Is The Next Frontier Of Minecraft Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of \u2018game you play on every piece of hardware\u2019 it seems that the role of \u2018game you play on everything just because you can\u2019 is slowly being shifted to Minecraft, as we have yet another Minecraft server somewhere Minecraft has no business being served\u2013 in this case, a Samsung Printer.<\/a><\/p>\n

The hack actually requires opening up the printer to get at the debug ports to bang your way in via serial, but as any security expert will tell you, once the black hats have physical access to a machine, they own it. That isn\u2019t to say it\u2019s easy\u2013 [vimpo] had to dump the firmware and find an exploit. Since it\u2019s 2026 [vimpo] tried to get an LLM to do all that hard work for him, and while it helped with identifying functions in the dump, ultimately the hacking still fell upon [vimpo]\u2019s human intelligence, though not before burning through millions of tokens.\u00a0 Having found a good old fashioned UDP overflow exploit, he\u2019s gets control of the printer and puts an improved version of his lightweight Minecraft server, UCraft, on it<\/a>.\u00a0 Like the server, the exploit<\/a> is also on GitHub but you\u2019ll very likely need the exact same printer to get it to work: a Samsung C410W with firmware V3.00.02.20, DEC-15-2015. One important caveat is that while you can still use the printer as intended after this hack, you cannot do so while playing Minecraft: it crashes the server if you try. Good to know.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering, yes, this is the same guy who got a Minecraft server running on a light-bulb<\/a>, which arguably more impressive. Where he might mine and\/or craft next is anybody\u2019s guess. Somebody else already did the ESP32-C3, <\/a>and while we suspect nothing will ever beat the 1960s Univac implementation<\/a> for sheer impracticality, we\u2019re willing to be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of \u2018game you play on every piece of hardware\u2019 it seems that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-599673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}