Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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minus-squareDickFiasco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·26 days agoIt’s hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 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-up1·25 days agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoOh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoI mean, you can use something like the lightweight containers generated by firejail, where the program just lacks write permission to the filesystem or network access, stuff like that.
It’s hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
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
I mean, you can use something like the lightweight containers generated by
firejail, where the program just lacks write permission to the filesystem or network access, stuff like that.