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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Printer (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which printer (not 3d) is safe to use and does not have privacy risks? Transfering files via usb only without any internet connection? Should I avoid any brand or model? Namaste.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I have a Brother color laser printer (technically it's like LED or something? not home, don't have the exact model handy). It has built in wifi and ethernet for network printing. The wifi isn't configured, and the ethernet is manually configured with a static IP for my LAN... but no gateway address. This breaks outgoing network connections to the internet (as evidenced by the printer's inability to check for firmware updates), while behaving otherwise normally for all my LAN devices. I hope this info is useful!