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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago

"We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers."

If the cartidges didn't have drm chips you wouldn't have anything to load with malware to begin with.