Third-party ink cartridges brick HP printers after 'anti-virus' update
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HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t...

HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of ‘hackers’.::HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t…

  • Bitflip@lemmy.mlEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    Inb4 capture HP’s kill code with Wireshark and forward it to every printer on shodan

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      That would be so cool if someone actually did that. Because at that point there would be a ton of people with a decision to make…do I go to HP and get screwed or do I go elsewhere?