> Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to

> Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, "We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network." I can't stop laughing. He can't be serious? If this was true, it would HP's fault for putting a chip in the cartridges in the first place! A cartridge should just be a container of ink, there shouldn't be a place to put a virus.