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What is mildly hilarious about their security justification is the only reason the ink cartridges have microcontrollers to do two way communication with the pri
by Macha 3y ago
What is mildly hilarious about their security justification is the only reason the ink cartridges have microcontrollers to do two way communication with the printer, rather than like a barcode or something, is because of HP's attempts to block third party cartridges, so to see HP say "we have it because third party controllers might try do something bad with this" is an interesting piece of circular logic.
- pwdisswordfishc 3y agoYeah, throughout the piece I couldn’t help but ask "why do cartridges carry executable code in the first place?"
- realaleris149 3y agoTo help protect against 3rd party cartridges.
- mwigdahl 3y agoThey have successfully bootstrapped evil.
- gtvwill 3y agoYou know a publicly traded company lying about its actions is straight up illegal here in Aus. That would be classed as misleading investors. Also HP bricking devices remotely. Straight up illegal. Not sure how weak the consumer protections are in the US but that behavior won't fly down under. ACCC will have something to say without a doubt.