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Samsung printer drivers open up the system

Samsung printer drivers open up the system

Posted Jul 18, 2007 13:40 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
Parent article: Samsung printer drivers open up the system

A nice demonstration that one should never stray outside of their distribution's package archive.

Or at least, it is a demonstration that if one really needs to do so, one shouldn't go about it in the manner of a Windows user, and download an unaudited executable from an untrusted and unverified third-party web site, and execute it with full system privileges.


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Samsung printer drivers open up the system

Posted Jul 18, 2007 14:00 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I suppose that's better than the Samsung ML-2250 printer driver, which
replaces bits of CUPS with binary-only stuff and then refuses to do
anything but dump core.

Oddly I decided to use pxlmono instead, even if it does halve my printer's
resolution to do so.

Samsung printer drivers open up the system

Posted Jul 19, 2007 11:40 UTC (Thu) by Tom2 (guest, #43780) [Link]

I wonder if there's a business model in there somewhere...
  1. Ship a Linux distribution so insecure that installing a mere printer driver can compromise the whole system without the user even realising.
  2. Scared users now only run software from your repository, passing up competitors' software.
  3. Profit?

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