Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
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minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoJust a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoOh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers
Just a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
Interesting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
Oh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers