Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

>
I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
point.

There is always third-party access to the kernel.  In the Windows NT days
before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program
in user space could make changes to the kernel.  And sometimes they
accidentally did.

What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
people could more reliably get third-party access.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."