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not only allowing, but approving? they signed driver, right? linux also allows, by approval is decentralized

• bilekas 2y ago
  Based on a simular comment you've made, I think there is some confusion for you as to what driver signing actually is. It's a certificate of Authority to identify the Distributer of the driver as legitimate or not. Indeed, this messup was signed, so correctly it was signed. As for the code/behaviour. It's nothing to do with signing.
• gruez 2y ago
  >by approval is decentralized Translation: it's up to whoever is the sysadmin is, which probably was responsible for crowdstrike being installed in the first place. Such "approval" would have made no difference in preventing this disaster.
  • dlahoda 2y ago
    how 8.5M devices got approval to install? may they came with hard to disable windows autoupdate?
    • dlahoda 2y ago
      gpt said it could be updated by ms https://chatgpt.com/share/8eca1a08-062f-4474-9310-95444bab670f https://chatgpt.com/share/8eca1a08-062f-4474-9310-95444bab67...
      • gruez 2y ago
        That's irrelevant when crowdstrike admitted it's caused by them.
      • bwock 2y ago
        this isnt a good contribution to this site
    • gruez 2y ago
      >how 8.5M devices got approval to install What makes you think that it was installed via windows update? The driver was part of crowdstrike's EDR software, Falcon. It's installed by sysadmins on corporate devices. That's how it got on 8.5M devices. It's not something that gets auto-installed when you run windows update.
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