“We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network.”
Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering completely unnecessary vulnerabilities into their hardware. There’s no reason why a dumb ink cartridge (no DRM) would need any ability to send data to the printer other than very short messages (like a few bytes at most), so it should not be possible for an ink cartridge to give the printer a virus unless this vulnerability is the direct result of the new DRM-tracking additions.
So HP is either malicious or incompetent, and regardless of which it is, I can’t see myself trusting another of their products ever again.
Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering
It’s not bullshit. Wether or not it’s “over-engineered” is debatable… a lot of seemingly simple technology is crazy complicated these days.
For example some USB-C cables are a simple cable with four pins soldered to four wires and a bit of plastic so they don’t touch. Others have over 20 wires, most of them individually shielded (which means a lot more wire and a lot more plastic separating them) with incredibly complex circuit boards to detect and counteract electromagnetic interference to eliminate cross talk between those 20 wires (because even with shielding, some of the signal on one wire still leaks out onto the ones next to them).
Is USB-C over engineered? That depends if you’re using it to charge your phone or to connect your laptop to an external screen/wired internet connection/power/etc. In the latter case, not over engineered at all.
The circuitry on printer cartridges don’t just do DRM, they’re also part of the calibration process to output accurate colours. Total overkill to print a hard copy of a payment receipt for your printer warranty… but printing a photo? I can get behind the over-engineering for that.
But I don’t see why the calibration would need to be on the cartridge. Like I could understand some sensors or similar but at the end the logic and all that the logical thing would be to be on printer.
Its about time to ditch printers completely inside the office. The only people who should be worried about printers are graphics shops like AlphaGraphics. What the fuck are we doing? Just beholden to these companies because paper feels nice in the CEOs hands? We deserve what we fucken get.
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Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering completely unnecessary vulnerabilities into their hardware. There’s no reason why a dumb ink cartridge (no DRM) would need any ability to send data to the printer other than very short messages (like a few bytes at most), so it should not be possible for an ink cartridge to give the printer a virus unless this vulnerability is the direct result of the new DRM-tracking additions.
So HP is either malicious or incompetent, and regardless of which it is, I can’t see myself trusting another of their products ever again.
It’s not bullshit. Wether or not it’s “over-engineered” is debatable… a lot of seemingly simple technology is crazy complicated these days.
For example some USB-C cables are a simple cable with four pins soldered to four wires and a bit of plastic so they don’t touch. Others have over 20 wires, most of them individually shielded (which means a lot more wire and a lot more plastic separating them) with incredibly complex circuit boards to detect and counteract electromagnetic interference to eliminate cross talk between those 20 wires (because even with shielding, some of the signal on one wire still leaks out onto the ones next to them).
Is USB-C over engineered? That depends if you’re using it to charge your phone or to connect your laptop to an external screen/wired internet connection/power/etc. In the latter case, not over engineered at all.
The circuitry on printer cartridges don’t just do DRM, they’re also part of the calibration process to output accurate colours. Total overkill to print a hard copy of a payment receipt for your printer warranty… but printing a photo? I can get behind the over-engineering for that.
But I don’t see why the calibration would need to be on the cartridge. Like I could understand some sensors or similar but at the end the logic and all that the logical thing would be to be on printer.
Why not both!?
So… Comically evil?
i didn’t mean to exclude that option but rather thought it to be redundant since the result is the same.
shady is as shady does. on the street or in a corner office.
Its about time to ditch printers completely inside the office. The only people who should be worried about printers are graphics shops like AlphaGraphics. What the fuck are we doing? Just beholden to these companies because paper feels nice in the CEOs hands? We deserve what we fucken get.