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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers (www.wired.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hotdogman 10 points 11 months ago

Think of the kids... security.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But whose security?

[–] medicsofanarchy 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Profits security.

[–] Kyrgizion 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 3 points 11 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 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the poor defenseless users, of course 🙏

[–] SinningStromgald 1 points 11 months ago

Is "users" a new way of saying shareholders?