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HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments"

www.techspot.com HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments"

HP is very insistent that users of its printers don't turn to cheaper third-party alternatives for their ink cartridges. It introduced a feature called Dynamic Security in...

From my point of view HP printers are a bad investment.

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HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments"

www.techspot.com /news/101593-hp-ceo-customers-who-dont-use-companies-supplies.html

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"We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers."
Seems like it's a problem of their own making tbh..
- No kidding. "We've allowed our cartridges to arbitrarily execute code. It's the user's fault."
  
  And the only reason code is even in there is because of their DRM :P
  
  Hey, we need a robust serial connection to our cartridges for checking ink levels. Nothing more basic would do. /s
  
  "Also, 'check ink levels' by counting how many pages were printed while this cartridge was installed"

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