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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: 24 Jul 2024 23:19:33 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <v7s265$ipa$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <v7mhb5$qi0k$2@dont-email.me> <pan$efaa$e4f1e82d$63a65db8$edda2d85@cpacker.org> <q8mv9jpn95tb1urggdutodhiktta669ogv@4ax.com> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="1339"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1419 Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote: > >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. There is always third-party access to the kernel. In the Windows NT days before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program in user space could make changes to the kernel. And sometimes they accidentally did. What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that people could more reliably get third-party access. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."