{"id":1479,"date":"2016-09-29T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2022-06-23T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:03:14","slug":"electronic-frontier-foundation-eff-criticizes-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/09\/29\/electronic-frontier-foundation-eff-criticizes-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticizes HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Stop.jpg\" align=\"left\">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticizes HP heavily for it's move to block third party ink cartridges on some of its ink jet printers. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I published the article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210620121218\/https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/09\/19\/hp-printer-firmware-disables-refill-ink-cartridges\/\">HP printer firmware disables refill ink cartridges<\/a>. Some users of HP ink jet printers are facing problems with third party refill ink cartridges after September 13, 2016. This is a result of a firmware update for several HP printers, rolled out in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/09\/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers<\/a> to HP's CEO Dion Weisler, EFF addresses the latest move made by HP. According to EFF, HP abused its security update mechanism to trick its customers. HP deprived its customers of a useful, legitimate feature, offered as a kind of \"security update\" (according to EFF). Especially the time between releasing the firmware update (March 2016) and setting the ink cartridge detection active (September 2016) is, according to EFF, a \"bait-and-switch\"-behavior. <\/p>\n<p>EFF call on HP to take the following five steps, immediately:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Apologize to affected customers, and restore the original functionality of their printers with a firmware update that rolls back the self-destruct sequence;\n<li>Publicly commit that HP will never again use your software update process to distribute anti-features that work against your customers' interests;\n<li>Publicly commit that the effects of any software updates will be fully disclosed;\n<li>Prominently disclose any capability or plan to remove features from devices in your sales literature, so customers know what they're getting before they buy;\n<li>Promise to never invoke Section 1201 of the DMCA against security researchers or competitors who make legitimate aftermarket products.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>More details may be read within the open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/09\/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers<\/a>. The EFF has also set up a petition <a href=\"https:\/\/act.eff.org\/action\/tell-hp-say-no-to-drm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tell HP \u2014 Say No to DRM<\/a> and asks to join this petition. For me, the interesting thing is: Companies are spending billion dollar budgets for marketing to set the company and its products in a positive light. And then some \"decision makers\" are pulverizing this within hours with such a stupid move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticizes HP heavily for it's move to block third party ink cartridges on some of its ink jet printers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[433,386,414,415],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-drm","tag-firmware-updae","tag-hp","tag-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}