Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals

• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any networked device can be used to gain access to the rest of the network (kind of).

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• ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  … Because products can contain security exploits, and if not patched could leave homes and businesses vulnerable.

  This shouldn’t need to be explained, but here we are.

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depends on whether you absolutely need your printers connected to the internet or not.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Printer manufacturers: Of course your printers need to be connected to the Internet… For… Reasons…

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fun part is the security exploits often come from things like smart ink cartridges that allows an attack to come from the goddamn cartridge!

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh hey I can think of a solution to improve security here!

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