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Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Networked printers are very common, so if there is a vulnerability exposed to the network the printer can be exploited and infect other machines, or copy all printouts etc

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Printers only need a LAN connection. There is no need to give them internet access.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My LaserJet is from '08 and still works great with just a USB (or parallel port... lol). It even does an occasional toner transfer or transparency for printed circuit boards. They making 17+ year printers any more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It is nice to have a discoverable printer on the network that anyone can print to from their laptop or phone. I use that feature all the time, especially on d&d nights