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How were european regulations to blame for the crowdstrike incident?
by supermatt 2y ago
How were european regulations to blame for the crowdstrike incident?
- detaro 2y agoMicrosoft sells security software that is using kernel modules. Some years ago in a anti-trust thing they agreed to let other security software vendors use kernel modules too so their own product wouldn't have an unfair advantage. They now claim that if that hadn't happened they would have banned their competitors from using kernel modules and thus crowdstrike couldn't have fucked up kernel code. What they don't mention is that they could have made it possible to implement such software without kernel modules, like other platforms do, and banned everyone (including their own product) from kernel space, leading to both "no security software in kernel" (not even Microsofts) and "Microsofts security products do not get a special unfair exception", but of course there is a crowd loving that argument as broken as it is.
- supermatt 2y agoWow - that was over 20 years ago - and microsoft are blaming that (and by extension their own security model!) instead of crowdstrikes internal process? Thats insane. Its like microsoft are asking to be held accountable for it!