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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by NoZebra120vClip on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:11AM (#34692256)
Your home router has always been on the "subscription plan". Once your vendor abandons the hardware and ceases updates, do you really want an opaque, un-inspectable black box with access to your whole network, while the CVEs pile up and you have no patch or upgrade options left?

Your IOTs are all on subscription plan. All it takes is a defunct company, yank from the App Store, or unpatched CVEs and you'll need to physically uninstall that puppy, whether it's your dishwasher, fridge, thermostat, or lawn sprinklers. Have fun.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by Semaphor on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:36AM (#34692520)
> Your IOTs are all on subscription plan.

Only if they require some internet connection.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by lll-o-lll on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:43AM (#34692597)
IOT, internet of things. It’s kind of right there in the name…
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by Semaphor on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:49AM (#34692656)
> Internet of things has been considered a misnomer because devices do not need to be connected to the public internet, they only need to be connected to a network, and be individually addressable.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by MichaelZuo on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:23AM (#34693114)
There's more than one internet.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by theandrewbailey on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:05AM (#34694485)
> Your home router has always been on the "subscription plan". Once your vendor abandons the hardware and ceases updates, do you really want an opaque, un-inspectable black box with access to your whole network, while the CVEs pile up and you have no patch or upgrade options left?

OpenWRT says hi. https://openwrt.org/toh/start

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by alexpotato on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:14AM (#34694626)
Having used DD-WRT for a while, the fact that there is a searchable device list is a nice touch.
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