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Hi, idiot here. Can you explain how it is a windows problem?
If you patch a security vulnerability, who's fault is the vulnerability? If the OS didn't suck, why does it need a 90 billion dollar operation to unfuck it?
Redhat is VALUED at less than that.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/41182-21
It's a fucking windows problem.
Sure, but they weren't patching a windows vulnerability, windows software, or a security issue, they were updating their software.
I'm all for blaming Microsoft for shit, but "third party software update causes boot problem" isn't exactly anything they caused or did.
You also missed that the same software is deployed on Mac and Linux hosts.
Hell, they specifically call out their redhat partnership: https://www.crowdstrike.com/partners/falcon-for-red-hat/
Are the Mac and Linux machines having BSOD (-style) issues and trouble booting?
No, because CrowdStrike didn't bork the drivers for those systems. They could have, though.
Nope, because they only shipped a corrupted windows kernel module.
It's dumb luck that whatever process resulted in them shipping a broken build didn't impact the other platforms.
They've got Paid BSOD, I've got FreeBSD, we're not the same.
isn't XNU more decoupled than Windows kernel?