Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

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Submitted by: inventor7777
Posted: Oct 26, 2026
Site: inventor7777.github.io

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Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 42 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #9 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 17:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 29, 18:37 UTC.

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The interesting part to me in there is seeing a TRON kernel in the wild. In the 80's TRON was Japan's bet for the future of operating systems, but it just lived on as an embedded kernel in cars, printers and other industrial applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project…
— kalleboo · view comment

This is something I have been wondering for a while: do custom laser printer firmware projects exist? I'm mostly interested in that to remove toner manufacturer checks, and fix a few annoyances in CUPS and the printers' postscript drivers. I imagine that is shouldn't be too complicated to support more HW in the…
— MayeulC · view comment

I can't tell if any of this gives you more access than the normal http admin interface.
— amstan · view comment

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#9 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 17:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

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It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (42 checks) since.