Bad firmware updates teach PC users the wrong habits.

COMPUTER firmware; HABIT; LASER printers; INK cartridges; HAIR dyeing & bleaching

Earlier this year, HP doubled down on its so-called "dynamic security" policy, issuing firmware updates for its printers that blocked the use of third-party ink. If you want to be trusted, you have to be trustworthy, and when companies like HP poison the well with anti-consumer restrictions, it teaches people to regard firmware updates with suspicion (or in the case of that one friend of mine, open hostility). [Extracted from the article]

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