Third-party ink cartridges brick HP printers after 'anti-virus' update
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HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t...

HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of ‘hackers’.::HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t…

  • flathead@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    I was going to ask how this fucking idiot became CEO of a major company. I was surprised to learn that he joined as an intern in 1989 - based on his stupidity I incorrectly assumed it was nepotism again.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      10 months ago

      It sounds stupid, and they knew it would…

      They announced a “bug bounty” and paid the first person to prove it could hypothetically happen

      They wanted a reason to ban 3rd party printers, came up with a reason that may work, and then outsourced it to a hacker to actually prove it can be done

      It’s 100% an asshole move, but it’s smart and calculated too.

      This isn’t to convince consumers, it’s to argue in court that some form of reason exists.

      And this is the reason they picked, it’s not like they could pick a valid one, because no valid one exists