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So here's the deal.

If you have an HP printer, you can only now use HP cartridges.

I don't know if you guys and gals know this.

And the reason why has nothing to do with money, not at all.

No?

No, not at all.

Is it security?

Are they leaning on security?

Yes, they are. They say that if you don't

use an official HP cartridge in an HP printer that you could get a virus. Oh, it is security.

And identity theft. Yes. That it's in there somewhere. And so when the CEO of HP was asked about this, like, is this really true?

I mean, that you're talking about, like, that you have to use an HP cartridge or else

like a big virus is going to like infiltrate your entire network and take over the whole world.

He's like, that's what I'm saying.

Well, there hasn't been any proven techniques to do this yet.

But it could.

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