Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 08:38:20 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:38:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0dd5a35bfd3cf1f4a81aee0773cb00ed"; logging-data="2179644"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/l21WVPFg+t5hpFnp8zln3nyQLwGl5VKc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:f6L26+pYT/BnjGXvy8b2T7VJ98M= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2979 On 27/07/2024 01:30, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 7/23/2024 11:27 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:56:32 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >> 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. Rather, Microsoft wants its kernel holes and any antivirus capability to be legally Microsoft property, and secret. In software that everybody has. So that won't work. I am not saying that Crowdstrike doesn't have work to do. In a Microsoft word, you will have only Windows Defender, and they'll charge.