CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
So, do all windows machines use this, or do you have to add this software?
It’s separate software; CrowdStrike is independent from Microsoft and it isn’t a default component of Windows.
It’s interesting that Microsoft is getting a lot of flack from this.
Yeah, this isn’t really the fault of windows.
Windows normalized running third party software as kernel level code.
Third parties love their trojans just being treated as normal way of life.
“Anti-cheats” instead of not being imbeciles while designing protocols for multiplayer, “anti-viruses” which need to run kernel-level and download databases with executable code, video drivers which just can’t be packaged with Windows.
One thing I’ve realized is that large parts of social structure are dependent on cheating. We all want to cheat, so we all agree to a system where cheating is possible, but pretend it’s not happening until someone gets caught and then just behave as if nothing happened.
One necessary part of someone’s upbringing is honesty. There’s an amazingly deep moment in LOTR where Eomer says that Rohirrim don’t lie, so they are not easily deceived.
This is not a poetic device. This is how it works. Ponzi schemes usually target people who think they are smarter and more cunning and will gain something from them. And rigged security systems work because most of participants think they are the ones who may at some point abuse those systems, but most of them are the ones becoming eventually victims of such abuse.
I think it’s much simpler: people don’t know what they’re doing, while CEOs want to make more money so don’t do appropriate (expensive) practices.
If there is any software you want running at kernel though it is your AV. Not saying Spotify has a reason for running at kernel though… But running AV at kernel in theory is a better way to protect the machine and you.
It seems to be an enterprise product, meaning normal users might not have been affected. I wouldn’t personnaly be able to confirm since I usually have 1-2 month uptime on my windows machine.
Their computers may not be affected, but their everyday lives might be. Some of the affected services include 911, stoplights, banks, hospitals, and a whole other smorgasbord of stuff.
It’s a general security solution. They run on Mac and Linux as well. It just happened that crowdstrike only released the broken update for windows.