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“3rd party ink will give you a computer virus”
What a lying sack of crap that guy is.
If 3rd party ink can give you a computer virus then the printer isn’t built correctly. There’s no reason that should happen.
If you’re using an HP printer, such an attack is feasible because of the chips that they use for detecting ink levels, verifying the manufacturer, etc… As a result, any cartridge could potentially infect your printer (since potentially an attacker could modify a first party ink/toner cartridge and replace its chip with one infected with malware). As such, the only fully “safe” approach is to modify your HP printer such that it doesn’t connect to these chips at all.
I look forward to HP providing firmware that will prevent the printer from communicating with any ink/toner chips (and that will allow printing to continue unabated, relying on the user to notice that ink levels are low and that new ink is required).
You’re saying ink can only give you a virus if HP created vulnerabilities in their printers to enable DRM.
So they’re warning you about a risk they chose to create in order to rip off their customers.
HP garbage is the real bad investmemt
I like how HP says a big reason to not use 3rd party ink is because they can introduce malware, which is another reason they need to work to make sure you only use HP ink.
However, the security issue is because of the chips they use in order to make sure you only use HP ink.
It seems like to me that HP, HPE and HP Printing have had the most constant and slowest death in the industry and if this article proves anything, it isn’t going to change.
Watchugonna do, stop selling to us?
This is capitalism.
we sort of see a 20 percent uplift on the value of that customer because you’re locking that person, committing to a longer-term relationship.
Do these people never listen to themselves? Who the hell wants to be “locked”?
CEO: “We have observed through careful analysis that by locking our customers inside the restaurant, they will continue to order food from us in order to not starve. Therefore, from now on, all doors shall now be one way only”
Investors: “What brilliant entrepreneurship!”
I don’t buy HP anything & won’t recommend them to anyone either.
I used to work for a laptop repair company. Nothing made me hate HP than having to work on their machines. Dell? Lenovo? Hell, Asus? I’d take ‘em all over an HP any day.
My biggest question is WHY ARE THERE SCREWS UNDER THE FEET??
All the time. Good Lord I got so sick of that.
I saw their ad for their printer ink that is apparently chipped to stop People from buying third party ink.
They presented it as a means to ‘prevent fraud’ and to ‘protect your business’
From what
From people not buying your overpriced junk? How does you adding what is basically a drm at this point help the consumer combat ‘fraud’?!
