Epson boobytrapped its printers

“For your protection.”

Cory Doctorow
3 min readAug 7, 2022

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EFF’s printer DRM banner by Hugh D’Andrade, depicting a printer with an anthropomorphic sick face vomiting out four bars of ink.” Image: EFF/Hugh D’Andrade https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer CC BY 3.0 https://www.eff.org/copyright

“Innovation” has become a curseword, thanks to…innovation. Some of the world’s most imaginative, best-funded sociopaths have spent decades innovating ways to fuck you over. While the whole tech sector likes to get in on this game, no one “innovates” like inkjet printer companies.

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