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Samsung printer drivers open up the systemSamsung printer drivers open up the systemPosted Jul 18, 2007 16:24 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)Parent article: Samsung printer drivers open up the system
I think that this is an example of a real and serious class of security problems. Too many developers fail to consider security when they design their software, so it turns out not to work when they move to an environment that has a more restrictive, or simply different, security environment from their development system. Instead of stepping back and changing their software to work with the more restrictive permissions, they change the permissions to match their initial assumptions. My experience with Windows is that the tendency to run everything as Administrator is primarily a way of avoiding permissions problems, and now it seems that developers who are used to that solution are moving to Linux as well.
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Samsung printer drivers open up the system Posted Jul 18, 2007 17:48 UTC (Wed) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287) [Link] Yeah, but we should be glad that Windows developers *are* moving, or at least trying to support, Linux as well. The solution, I think, is by way of tactful but FIRM education. We'd really like to have these guys, just not at all costs.Certainly not at the cost of security, which is one of Linux/Solaris/*BSD's biggest draws over Windows. If any Windows developers are reading this, I did have one Windows-only app that I really really liked: BeigeBag Spice. But I stopped using it, AND stopped paying for version upgrades, after a minor-release maintenance "upgrade" suddenly forced me to start running the program as Administrator. Just no excuse for that. None whatsoever.
Samsung printer drivers open up the system Posted Jul 19, 2007 5:36 UTC (Thu) by jhs (guest, #12429) [Link] Agreed. World domination is achieved now that we have inherited the world's Windows developers. Certainly, greener pastures must lie ahead.
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