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There is no nuance needed - this is a giant corporation that sells kernel layer intermediation at global scale. You better be spending billions on bulletproof d

There is no nuance needed - this is a giant corporation that sells kernel layer intermediation at global scale. You better be spending billions on bulletproof deployment automation because *waves hands around in the air pointing at whats happening just like with solarwinds* Bottom line this was avoidable and negligent For the record I owned global infrastructure as CTO for the USAF Air Operations weapons system - one of the largest multi-classification networked IT systems ever created for the DoD - even moreso during a multi-region refactor as a HQE hire into the AF So I don’t have any patience for millionaires not putting the work in when it’s critical infrastructure People need to do better and we need accountability for people making bad decisions for money saving

arp242 2y ago
Almost everything that goes wrong in the world is avoidable one way or the other. Simply stating "it was avoidable" as an axiom is simplistic to the point of silliness. Lots of very smart people have been hard at work to prevent airplanes from crashing for many decades now, and planes still crash for all sorts of reasons, usually considered "avoidable" in hindsight. Nothing is "bulletproof"; this is a meaningless buzzword with no content. The world is too complex for this.
HL33tibCe7 2y ago
> You better be spending billions on bulletproof deployment automation There is no such thing.
jonathanzufi 2y ago
You must have insanely cool stories :-) What are your thoughts on MSFTs role in this? They’ve been iterating Windows since 1985 - doesn’t it seem reasonable that their kernel should be able to survive a bad 3rd party driver?
- AndrewKemendo 2y ago
  1. System high/network isolation is a disaster in practice and is the root of MSFT and AD/ADFS architecture 2. The problem is the ubiquity of windows so it’s embedded in the infrastructure We’ve put too many computers in charge of too much stuff for the level of combined capabilities of the computer and the human operator interface

arp242 2y ago

Almost everything that goes wrong in the world is avoidable one way or the other. Simply stating "it was avoidable" as an axiom is simplistic to the point of silliness. Lots of very smart people have been hard at work to prevent airplanes from crashing for many decades now, and planes still crash for all sorts of reasons, usually considered "avoidable" in hindsight. Nothing is "bulletproof"; this is a meaningless buzzword with no content. The world is too complex for this.

HL33tibCe7 2y ago

> You better be spending billions on bulletproof deployment automation There is no such thing.

jonathanzufi 2y ago

You must have insanely cool stories :-) What are your thoughts on MSFTs role in this? They’ve been iterating Windows since 1985 - doesn’t it seem reasonable that their kernel should be able to survive a bad 3rd party driver?

AndrewKemendo 2y ago
1. System high/network isolation is a disaster in practice and is the root of MSFT and AD/ADFS architecture 2. The problem is the ubiquity of windows so it’s embedded in the infrastructure We’ve put too many computers in charge of too much stuff for the level of combined capabilities of the computer and the human operator interface