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minus-squarekbin_space_programlinkfedilink42•edit-22 months agoTrick is that any respectable OS should crash in this scenario. Including when cloudstrike did this to Linux. There was an uncaught exception in a program that was using a workaround to run unsigned code at a kernel level. The only part of this on MS is not investigating how Cloudstrike was doing updates. Otherwise its 100% Cloudstrike that set all of this in motion.
minus-squarecitrusfacelinkEnglish4•2 months agoThat’s totally a fair point - thank you for the perspective
Trick is that any respectable OS should crash in this scenario. Including when cloudstrike did this to Linux.
There was an uncaught exception in a program that was using a workaround to run unsigned code at a kernel level.
The only part of this on MS is not investigating how Cloudstrike was doing updates. Otherwise its 100% Cloudstrike that set all of this in motion.
That’s totally a fair point - thank you for the perspective