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@mia Oh no, someone can screw with my printers configuration.

Anyway.
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@Suiseiseki some cups filters allow arbitrary command execution you know

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@Suiseiseki also making network requests on your behalf, turning it into a backdoor into your LAN and other, possibly more vulnerable devices such as modern printers

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@Suiseiseki (which i’m sure you’d never use)

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@Pi_rat @Suiseiseki a good printer will accept raw postscript over its parallel port

no drivers, no proprietary USB transceivers, you can literally program an 8-bit microcontroller to talk to it

i like my old laserjet

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