Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On 26 Jul 2024 at 13:33:50 BST, ""Gary R. Schmidt"" <grschmidt@acm.org>
wrote:

On 25/07/2024 20:21, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

On 25 Jul 2024 at 00:19:33 BST, "Scott Dorsey" <Scott Dorsey> wrote:
 

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.

 
Are you sure? NT 3.51 and 4.0 had full tiered memory protection. Then in
Win2k (NT 5.0) they gave driver access to the kernel for GPUs, and
reintroduced massive instability yay.
 

I thought it was 4.0 that put the graphical stuff back into the kernel?

You are correct! I have slept since then and things fade.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//cc750820(v=technet.10)

    Cheers - Jaimie

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