Amusing Confusing Wizards

July 7, 2021

More from the Redmond wizards’ humor generating machines.

Microsoft has found a way to deflect attention from yet another security issue. Do you print over the Internet? “Microsoft Acknowledges PrintNightmare Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Windows Pint Spooler Service” says:

IT Admins are also invited to disable the Print Spooler service via Powershell commands, though this will disable the ability to print both locally and remotely. Another workaround is to disable inbound remote printing through Group Policy, which will block the remote attack vector while allowing local printing.

So what distracts one from a print nightmare? That’s easy. Just try to figure out if your PC can run Windows 11? TPM, you say? Intel what?

PrintNightmare aptly characterizes Microsoft’s organizational acumen perhaps?

Stephen E Arnold, July 7, 2021

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