Over the last couple years we really started seeing 3D printers you can buy and turn on and out of the box they will support printing over wifi or even over the internet
which means it is purely a matter of time before someone is sent a three-dimensional black fax
espECIALLY with them newfangled multi-material printers. wake up in the morning and your entire build volume is just a solid cube of all the filaments you own
A black fax, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is an ancient DoS attack where you would tape the ends of a piece of entirely black paper together and use that as the input for a fax machine. You'd then send this completely black and endless signal to a fax machine operated by someone that you hate, ideally one that's unattended, so that you could make it spew all of its paper and toner very efficiently.
This is not in fact the most ancient DoS technique. The most ancient DoS technique was, according to Plutarch, perfected by the greek philosopher, winemaker, and erotic red-figure kylyx model Grovus.
Grovus would send someone a scytale message that was really long and also was encoded for a really thick scytale, so that the recipient, in attempting to read it, would be occupied procuring a suitable tree trunk. While they were in the woods doing this, Grovus would sneak into their household and steal their sheep.
big fan of the oops all holes punchcard for old DoS techniques, where you punch out all the holes in a few punch cards and hide them in someone's stack of legit cards so it feeds the first few feed in ok, they walk away because it takes a while, then the fragile & bendy all holes card partway through the stack goes in and jams
