Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

In article <v81f3u$32eu9$3@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

“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.

Of course, what will almost certainly happen instead is
that Microsoft will not fix all the other kernel holes,
and instead of a CrowdStrike "computers down for a while"
(which is unlikely to happen again, I would suspect that
this is a lesson they will not be forgetting) it'll be "mass
ransomware attack and nobody will get their data back without
paying a billion to Putin's hacker brigades."

Microsoft doesn't have the best record of proactively
dealing with security flaws in their products.  And often
foot-dragging on patching known holes.

(I am most bodaciously *NOT* going to be installing any
version containing their "Recall" product.  This may be the
thing that finally drives me to wipe all Microsoft from my
computers and go all Linux.)
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