On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 08:15:46PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> And I always try to avoid using protocols that assume that the local
> link is secure. That's one of the reasons why my printer is connected by
> USB, and I would like to continue to have that choice.

You have always had (and always will) have that choice; the ability to 
disable automatic printer discovery has been present since discovery was 
added with CUPS 1.2 (released back in 2006!)

But there is no way to tell from a stock OS print dialog if a given 
printer identifier is local, remote, "secure", "hostile" or whatever.  
There never has been, and I don't think there ever can be.

You want secure printing?  Put the document you want to print onto a USB 
stick, and plug it into an airgapped printer that is in a 
controlled-access room.  Even that's not necessarily sufficient, but 
anything _less_ than that is clearly insecure and inherently untrustable.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy                        pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)

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