Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers - Which?
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If you've got a Windows PC and a printer, you need to check whether you're affected by these changes – or you could lose access to features
  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Just a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Interesting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          4 hours ago

          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.