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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:30:54 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 02:30:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dfee053d5abf1db6ec13368477afeac0"; logging-data="3226569"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IuryE+UXZ1nPmWsSdRG+/bdj4fWXjKww=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:QVTyBhRgUbXxu39c7qlne1Ypwx8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2630 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. Lynn