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The only surprising thing is that this doesn't happen every month. Nobody understands their runtime environment. Most IT org's long ago "surrendered" control an
by nickdothutton 2y ago
The only surprising thing is that this doesn't happen every month.
Nobody understands their runtime environment. Most IT org's long ago "surrendered" control and understanding of it, and now even the "management" of it (I use the term loosely) is outsourced.
- ssss11 2y ago“Cloud” is so great huh
- nickdothutton 2y ago"I'm going to install an agent from Company X, on this machine, which it is essential that they update regularly, and which has the potential to both increase your attack surface and prevent not just normal booting but also successful operation of the OS kernel too". I am not going to provide you with a site specific test suite, you're going to just have to trust me that it wont interrupt your particular machine".
- yard2010 2y ago"And ofc, you pay me a shitload of money for this, I don't have to tell you why, am I?"
- swozey 2y agoThis is mostly physical machines in person, kiosks and pos terminals, office desktops and things like that. Windows is a tiny portion of GCP and AWS and the web in general. I'm 100% "cloud" with tens of thousands of linux containers running and haven't been affected at all.
- patates 2y agoNowadays it seems like everyone is running stuff inside VMs because IT removes all the rights in the host system.