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~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[โ€“] roguetrick 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fun part is the security exploits often come from things like DRM ink cartridges that allows an attack to come from the goddamn cartridge!

Wouldn't be a problem if you didn't include a serial connection to the cartridge in the first place!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh hey I can think of a solution to improve security here!