More recently, HP pushed a fake "security update" to its printers that lay dormant for six months, then activated and began blocking third-party/remanufactured ink cartridges.

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It& #39;s such a reckless act, a poisoning of the well, like Trump& #39;s attempt to use the US census to gather citizenship data or the CIA& #39;s impersonation of public health workers when they were searching for Osama bin Laden.

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These practices are essential to our common wellbeing, and rely heavily on voluntary cooperation. Teaching people that participating in these actions - whose benefits are not personal, but rather distributed across our whole society - is an act of depraved indifference.

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