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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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