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.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers

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It's such a reckless act, a poisoning of the well, like Trump's attempt to use the US census to gather citizenship data or the CIA'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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