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  • eric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    “We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network.”

    Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering completely unnecessary vulnerabilities into their hardware. There’s no reason why a dumb ink cartridge (no DRM) would need any ability to send data to the printer other than very short messages (like a few bytes at most), so it should not be possible for an ink cartridge to give the printer a virus unless this vulnerability is the direct result of the new DRM-tracking additions.

    So HP is either malicious or incompetent, and regardless of which it is, I can’t see myself trusting another of their products ever again.