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HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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His claims are quickly debunked in the article, as the true reason is, obviously, protecting their IP and subscription model

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds an awful lot like even their first party cartridges could be attack vectors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yes. I suspect that when they say the printers are only vulnerable via third-party cartridges, they mean that obviously no genuine HP cartridge would contain malicious software, therefore any malicious cartridge is by definition third party, therefore the printers are only vulnerable via third-party cartridges.