Re: Lunduke's video on this latest issue

On 2024-09-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-09-28 2:37 p.m., rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:01:14 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Like I said, I'm happy to see that the solution is as simple as it is
and that it doesn't affect printing as much as I expected that it would.
When the problem was revealed, it truly sounded like the fix would be
worse than the problem.

 
I don't know if it is a fix but I noticed cups-browsed and other cups
files were in the Fedora 40 update I did last night.

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That would be interesting since the article suggested that developers
have been looking for a solution for weeks and been unable to find one.
All the better if they've figured something out. Seriously though, if it
is possible to simply disable cups-browsed without compromising
functionality, why even make a big deal out of this? They seem to have
made it sound much worse than it actually is.

The reason to make a "big deal out of it" is that it is a potential security
risk for those with their UDP 631 ports exposed to the Internet and who are
using cups-browsed. Just for the sake of safety I've uninstalled
cups-browsed on my computers, but I'm pretty sure I don't have my UDP 631
port opened to the world. I think this is mostly an issue for companies and
corporations who do remote printing (which I'm guessing isn't that common
anymore, but I don't know for sure because I don't work in that
environment).

When they say they've been trying to find a solution for weeks, I think it
means for those who still need the cups-browsed feature. For most of the
Linux world the fix is easy (or not necessary).

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