Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukBeep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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-up0·3 months agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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