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The irony of this whole situation is astounding.
Tries to prevent bad actors sabotaging corporate computer systems; is bad actor sabotaging corporate computer systems.
Which is why there’s gotta be a better way to monitor and secure than installing 3rd party root level software on systems.
It's so bad out there right now, that this is the "correct" way. The issue comes when that software isn't treated like the root level suite it is by its vendor.
Yeah I always liked how for Linux kernel stuff to have wide adoption, it had to actually be merged into the kernel because you couldn't really convince people that recompiling a kernel with some proprietary patches is a good idea.
SELinux was the NSA's project, but they still treated it carefully with how it was developed and released it with GPL so that it could be tested and looked at by many people.
Meanwhile windows has no concerns with anti cheat basically running their own rootkits.
There is a great analogy to gun ownership in here.
How?
Thing that is supposed to protect people from bad circumstance causes bad circumstance.
That's a much better analogy than I was expecting. Well said.
"I never thought guns would blow off my face!"
Crowdstrike, it's the hip new ransomware.