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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-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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2016-09-28 15:26 »

I was just reading about it! Disgusting! They think the hardware you bought is still theirs to do whatever the fuck they want with it... just like Microsoft thinks they can do what they want with YOUR computer. Filthy bastards! :sick:

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2016-09-28 23:44 »

*lol* optional... https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/ ... -party-ink

Soon after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued a letter to HP, calling for them to apologize to customers for releasing firmware that prevents the use of non-HP ink cartridges and refilled HP cartridges, the company has responded with a temporary solution. HP "will issue an optional firmware update that will remove the dynamic security feature" for certain OfficeJet printers.

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