Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windowswww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down19
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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agoI explained in my second sentence. “They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS.” If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that’s not a problem with the Linux kernel. https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic
minus-squarejust another dev@lemmy.my-box.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·4 months agoI fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoI was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.
I explained in my second sentence.
“They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS.”
If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that’s not a problem with the Linux kernel.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic
I fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?
I was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.
Gotcha.