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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone talking about Brother but does the point still stands for the newer models?

[โ€“] PurpleTentacle 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, it doesn't. Not even the old ones, because Brother is rolling out malicious firmware updates even to older models:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

If you have one of the remaining good Brother printers, make sure firmware updates are disabled.

[โ€“] Anonymouse 6 points 5 months ago

Upvote for.disabling firmware. It's a sad state when the average printer consumer needs to know how to disable firmware updates and even needs sysadmin skills to know how to block a host from the internet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Then I'm lucky mine only been connected to Linux. Thanks for the headsup