Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> writes: >https://heyitsas.im/posts/cups/ discloses: >[...]
Hopefully not too off-topic but a related issue with CUPS is that it's incredibly difficult to remove in order to harden a system. Under Ubuntu it's installed by default and deeply embedded into things (some packages can't be removed at all, try a 'sudo apt purge libcups*' but whatever you do don't hit 'y'), and keeps re-enabling and re-installing itself via different mechanisms (release-upgrade, snap, etc) once removed. So the easy mitigation of "don't do that, then" isn't really available unless you're prepared to spend some time recursively removing, disabling, and locking out everything involved. Peter.
