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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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In article <v81f3u$32eu9$3@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>“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.

Of course, what will almost certainly happen instead is
that Microsoft will not fix all the other kernel holes,
and instead of a CrowdStrike "computers down for a while"
(which is unlikely to happen again, I would suspect that
this is a lesson they will not be forgetting) it'll be "mass
ransomware attack and nobody will get their data back without
paying a billion to Putin's hacker brigades."

Microsoft doesn't have the best record of proactively
dealing with security flaws in their products.  And often
foot-dragging on patching known holes.

(I am most bodaciously *NOT* going to be installing any 
version containing their "Recall" product.  This may be the
thing that finally drives me to wipe all Microsoft from my
computers and go all Linux.)
-- 
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