HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses
"Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."
HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses
"Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."
@arstechnica Time to by stock in Brother. Their sales are about to go up
@arstechnica did HP replace their CEO with a gullible LLM? No? Are they really such liars?
@arstechnica HP CEO trying his best to expand the ruined reputation in their printer department to the entire HP.
@arstechnica they can get fucked
@arstechnica one would think HP would be more concerned about people using (horrid) third-party usb flash drives in HP-branded computers. A nefarious supervillain can fit a lot more malware on one of those than on a printer cartridge lockout chip.
@arstechnica @gsuberland's comment was about SPD EEPROMs on memory modules, not in printer cartridges as the article suggests -- it's a comparably small amount of memory. The point is that they have the background to comment on the plausibility of such an attack.
@arstechnica Yeah, because ink cartridges install software onto printers, so this makes perfect sense.
That or they're so full of it they can't even lie well.
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