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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers (www.wired.com)
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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers::The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

more often than not, it's in the name of security

[–] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Think of the kids... security.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But whose security?

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Profits security.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Surely this actually cuts into their profits in the longer term? More and more people will simply refuse to buy HP hardware. If they don't, they deserve to get grifted to high heavens and back at this point.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

If they actually bothered to care about the long term, a lot of these companies simply only care about near term and maybe maybe medium term profits

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the poor defenseless users, of course 🙏

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is "users" a new way of saying shareholders?