Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Van Pelt Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 16:41:48 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:41:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6c4574b99888b778ced36a380103f4ba"; logging-data="3069122"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LwrExka7gUGmn7l36ashrO5pYDtmDnkY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:59byCZmhGz+s0KCs4I0De1mfCik= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: mike@Mike-Laptop.localdomain (Mike-Laptop) Bytes: 2340 In article , Lynn McGuire 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.) -- Mike Van Pelt | "I don't advise it unless you're nuts." mvp at calweb.com | -- Ray Wilkinson, after riding out Hurricane KE6BVH | Ike on Surfside Beach in Galveston