Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:35:31 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2024-07-27 15:36:31 +0000, Paul S Person said:

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:30:54 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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:
 

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

xkcd: CrowdStrike
https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
 
Make the best of bad times.
 
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
 
Lynn

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

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

 
But will the EU allow it?
 
I suppose they could do two versions, one for the EU and the other for
sane [1] areas.
The EU could enjoy a Windows subject to assault by poorly-programmed
alternatives to Windows utilities/subsystems. The Rest of Us could
keep on using our computers. Well, except when Microsoft blunders, of
course.
 
[1] For a meaning of "sane" restricted to "believes restricting access
to the kernal is a good idea".

>
The same with many of the other ridiculous new EU tech laws coming into
effect (e.g. the ones forcing Apple to allow other app stores,
payments, etc.). The problem is that many other places are also looking
at similar ridiculous laws, including the UK, USA, etc.

This is a long-standing tradition: my music player (Logitech
Squeezebox Touch, now completely abandoned by Logitech) has both RCA
and headphone outputs, but the one I bought was configured for the EU
and the RCA output levels are so low they are not useable. Well, maybe
if I used two amplifiers, but not with a normal setup. This was done
to ensure that EU consumer's ears would not be destroyed by loud
sounds.

So I am using the headphone output which, in the proud tradtion of
cables using headphone plugs, requires me to "tune" the plug by
rotating it until both channels are actually being captured whenever
the box is disturbed enough to rotate the plug.

Most of these laws have nothing to do with the users / consumers, but
are greed-based to try to rinse more money out of big tech companies
for local governments, who then waste it on stupidities. The companies
already pay what they legally have to, and the loopholes they utilise
are the exact same ones most of those managers and policy makers
themselves use to squirrel away their obscene salaries from the tax
department.  :-\

If you say so.

Myself, I just chalk it up to letting MBAs run things.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"