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HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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@Heterokromia @yogthos
It would be interesting to see what they look for, and to set up a DNS and a server to give them locally what they want.
@GustavinoBevilacqua @yogthos I was *wildly* curious about it too. I imagine a public key cryptographic mechanism, but I do not know how it actually works. My keenness to get my money back completely overrode my curiosity about the network protocol. (Yes, that's very unusual for me.)