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Given how intrusive they usually behave, I'd expect the average consumer printer to phone home, too. The solution in both cases is privacy laws.
by fxtentacle 3y ago
Given how intrusive they usually behave, I'd expect the average consumer printer to phone home, too. The solution in both cases is privacy laws.
- BetaDeltaAlpha 3y agoI can put my home printer in a restricted vlan and block it from phoning back to HP. No laws needed (until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least).
- josephcsible 3y ago> until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least Didn't HP already do that with their Instant Ink program?
- fxtentacle 3y agoOr until the manufacturer includes a cheap GPRS module in the hardware.