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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•11 months agoI 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’?!
minus-squaretryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺linkfedilinkEnglish14•11 months agoBut 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-211 months agoExactly right. The problem was manufactured, in more ways than one.
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’?!
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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.