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Chronicling a body of evidence demonstrating that the U.S. government is horrifyingly tyrannical at almost every level, and authoritarianism, cronyism and corruption have poisoned almost every aspect of American life. We show the very real need for Americans to follow through on the Founding Fathers' instructions to overthrow their government and the evil corporations that control it.
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HP is the worst of them all. Disabling the whole multimachine because some random unidentified part no longer works is bust forcing people to replace otherwise functioning machines. I had a printer that support said could not be fixed, bit I wanted to keep using the scanner - not possible. Just buy a new one they said
Can't they be hacked?
It depends on the model but generally no. For using the scanner only, many of them will still allow use through USB. The screen on the printer itself won't allow you to until you replace ink or repair whatever printer fault if has. I recommend NAPS2 for PDF scanning.
How are they unhackable? People can take them apart and access the electronics, right? We know they can be changed remotely so there has to be a way.
There are too many models to reverse engineer them all (both hardware and firmware). HP has seriously invested in encryption to make sure you can only use new and genuine ink. It's not that it's unhackable, just that it's impractical to do so, especially when you can easily just buy from another brand.