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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
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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
>> <mailbox@cpacker.org> 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.