• Apparently Brother, and some Lexmark, printers don’t come with this BS DRM baked into the firmware.

    Has anyone cracked the HP firmware to give us proper access to our hardware?

    • @malloc@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Thanks to DMCA, circumventing this protection and sharing it with people is illegal.

      Honestly hasn’t stopped people in the past but I suspect it hasn’t been cracked because of how it connects to an external server to verify. Probably need to patch the firmware entirely

      • @Wiz@midwest.social
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        21 year ago

        Thanks to DMCA, circumventing this protection and sharing it with people is illegal.

        🏴‍☠️ Which means hypothetically it would need to be done anonymously. 🏴‍☠️