Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The unaccountable 3rd Party market that is built around MS is what caused the issue.

    No OS is 100% secure, but as soon as you allow 3rd Party vendors to fuck around at the kernel level, they get much less secure.

    Microsoft is to blame for allowing these fucktards kernel-level access. There were other ways they could have enabled third-party intrusion prevention software without giving away keys to the city.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Microsoft is to blame for allowing these fucktards kernel-level access.

      This is a backwards take.

      The only way to have actual security is for the entire kernel to be completely open source. Microsoft is too blame for not giving everyone kernel-level access.

    • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
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      4 months ago

      again, there’s no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.