Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down13
arrow-up1229arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukBeep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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