[cooljoseph]

Is this not literally a federal crime? It sounds like HP installed a backdoor on its printers to download malware that disables the printer.

If it's not a crime, I think it should become one, and I don't think a terms & conditions document should be able to protect against it (in the same way you can't, e.g., enforce a contract with illegal clauses).

[bzzzt]

They already f*cked this up big time: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/hp-rushes-t...

I've still got an old HP and disabling the internet connection on my router was the first thing I did when it worked.