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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~~ [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Keeping up-to-date with security updates is incredibly important.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Every CVE I flip a coin.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Makes life more exciting.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But not so much for the printers...

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Printer botnet goes brr.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Printers always go brr.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Unless they're HP, then they only go brr if you buy their ink. And apparently Brother now too.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never had an issue with viruses, I’m not a big company nor do I download sketchy files. I feel like if there’s something serious enough to affect me (like the iPhone Unicode character exploit), I’d hear about it.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

You'll never have an issue until you do. Not to mention all the issues you don't know about.