Thank you for the feeback and guidelines! We understand, respect and share the deep dislike for any marketing noise. In this case we do believe that each post in the series is a stand-alone post with its own clear value to the community.

We will refrain from sharing the next parts in the series, and come back to share the full series when completed.

You can now find the second post in the series here- https://jsof-tech.com/unpacking-hp-firmware-updates-part-2/

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We reverse engineered an HP printer. Our first of a four-part blog series documenting the HP printer firmware update format.

Interesting writeup. Any appetite for looking at other HP firmwares? We owners of HP 608G tablets have suffered for years after an irreversible firmware update introduced a permanent touchscreen lag.

We killed your DBMS: Error establishing a database connection

The site is back on! Enjoy the read

I'm wondering if something can come up in the firmware that is indicative of planned obsolescence. Is hardware design enough to achieve that?

not that we've seen. We weren't really looking at that aspect.