Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On 27/07/2024 01:30, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/23/2024 11:27 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:56:32 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
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xkcd: CrowdStrike
     https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
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Make the best of bad times.
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Explained at:
     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
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Lynn

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Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident.

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Not here. But then, I don't do that much on the Web. And I use Windows
10's security, which was not affected.
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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.

 “Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software:
 https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-wants-to-make-future-crowdstrike-outages-impossible-and-it-could-mean-big-changes-for-security-software
 “Microsoft appears to want to shift away from security software having kernel access on Windows 11, though the company hasn’t said that outright.”
 Sounds like a good idea. And fix all of the other kernel holes while they are at it.

Rather, Microsoft wants its kernel holes and
any antivirus capability to be legally Microsoft
property, and secret.  In software that everybody
has.  So that won't work.  I am not saying that
Crowdstrike doesn't have work to do.  In a Microsoft
word, you will have only Windows Defender, and
they'll charge.