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>>rntn+(OP)
> HP has long banged the drum about the potential for malware to be introduced via print cartridges, and in 2022, its bug bounty program confirmed that third-party cartridges with reprogrammable chips could deliver malware into printers.

How to convince the larger masses that this is actually a reflection of HP's plain gross incompetence (and likely intentional), rather than "the inevitable natural order of things" as the HP lackeys want to imply?

>>Ashame+k2
The funny thing is that if this ever happened, it would be on official HP cartridges that were the subject of a supply chain attack or insider threat. And yes, the even better part is that there is zero technical reason why this needs to be the case, the cartridges themselves should be dumb except for possibly a toner level sensor that is just a simple analog device. The threat vector only exists because HP is trying to squeeze the customer.