Security quote of the week [LWN.net]

But there's one depravity that no printer company has managed: putting DRM in paper. Oh, not for lack of will! But adding DRM to paper is hard, because paper is…well, it's paper. Pressed sheets of vegetable pulp. It's hard to put a cop-chip in a sheet of paper.
But what about a roll of paper?
See where this is going?

— Cory Doctorow on Dymo's new DRMed rolls of labels

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Security quote of the week

Posted Feb 17, 2022 9:46 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033) [Link]

I won't say that there's no Linux driver for Dymo printers because I don't actually know the current state of that art, but the relative ease of getting a Zebra printer to work with Linux is one reason that we bought one of those. The other, is that we had some very specific label requirements. The company we get our labels from, sell thousands of different sizes in many different materials and colours. (They also offer a label customization service, any colour image you want pre-printed onto the labels, though we don't need that). There is zero chance that all possible labels, present and future, will be available in Dymo-compatible rolls!

Corporate version of the Stamp Act?

Posted Feb 18, 2022 17:42 UTC (Fri) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

Yeah. This becomes complicated before it even begins. Us USians may (or may not) have an issue with taxing printing paper.