On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 08:36:51PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > > - uscanner, which was brought up by other people for an unrelated reason. > It was removed from FreeBSD in 2009, from OpenBSD in 2013, and disabled > in NetBSD in 2016. It has been superseded by ugen+SANE.
I would like to suggest that the use of "generic" USB/SCSI/etc. devices that allow sending arbitrary commands from userland is one of the least safe design patterns in modern operating systems. Not all security issues are accidental - some work as designed, and I think this is one such. So it's a bit of a shame to see uscanner or any other target-specific driver go, with an inherently unsafe generic target driver as replacement, though perhaps in this case it's necessary. -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] "Whether or not there's hope for change is not the question. If you want to be a free person, you don't stand up for human rights because it will work, but because it is right." --Andrei Sakharov
