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I saw their ad for their printer ink that is apparently chipped to stop People from buying third party ink.
They presented it as a means to 'prevent fraud' and to 'protect your business'
From what
From people not buying your overpriced junk? How does you adding what is basically a drm at this point help the consumer combat 'fraud'?!
Malware. They’re saying that malware imbedded on the cartridge can hop to the printer then onto networks.
Which is why you shouldn’t buy from unknown vendors. But even certified cartridges can be tampered with if you’re getting it from a sketchy source.
But how can malware be in the cartridge in the first place? Because someone in management had the ingenious idea, to put a chip with complex code and access rights in what is supposed to be a simple mechanical part.
Exactly right. The problem was manufactured, in more ways than one.