Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down14
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukBeep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·21 hours 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-up3·11 hours agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours 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