Steven W, 2016-09-28 02:39 »
I've avoided HP printers like the plague for many years now because the drivers tend to be loaded with tons of unnecessary bloat and ads. Now HP in its infinite wisdom have decided to add a new "feature" to ensure that you can only use that extremely high quality HP ink/toner. Well, at least in what HP considers to be its "enterprise" printers. Cleverly, the company added this "feature" in the form of a "security update".
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/w ... g-printersI don't hold out much hope that the average consumer, let alone huge corporations, will muster enough brain power to relegate HP to the trash bin of history or at least toss some water on the bastards.
I've avoided HP printers like the plague for many years now because the drivers tend to be loaded with tons of unnecessary bloat and ads. Now HP in its infinite wisdom have decided to add a new "feature" to ensure that you can only use that extremely high quality HP ink/toner. Well, at least in what HP considers to be its "enterprise" printers. Cleverly, the company added this "feature" in the form of a "security update".
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers
I don't hold out much hope that the average consumer, let alone huge corporations, will muster enough brain power to relegate HP to the trash bin of history or at least toss some water on the bastards.
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