A Silver Lining After The CrowdStrike Incident

In this video I discuss how changes being made to kernel mode drivers in the Windows kernel because of the crowd strike incident could bring more security to the Windows operating system, and potentially bring anticheat support to Linux Desktops.

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[maxanderson]

They could also stop trying to turn an operating system into a billboard...

[lil_lebi]

Vanguard anti cheat is NOT gonna like this

[bigsyrup]

“Almost 18 years ago”
Oh, way back in like Win95-
“In Windows Vista”
*Loud sobbing as I shrivel up into a withered corn husk*

[bitcode_]

I'm still unlocking machines manually, and have more on queue this week

[polarzxo]

oh my god the author of that article is John Cable, that guy actually invented cables in 1989

[J]

> I just look forward to the fact that I may get a free show right there in the restaurant

Ah, a fellow man of culture

[isbestlizard]

Really weird Windows doesn't have like, a mode where it doesn't load ALL the drivers, but just enough to get you to a point where the network is up and you've got a desktop and automatic policy to apply a fix could run. They could call it like 'safe mode' or something like that.

[INEXTERMINABLE]

Windows should throw the biggest curve ball and go open source
Edit: I know they won't do this lol

[plaintext]

Anime booba in the first minute certainly helps kerp the attention

[swagmuffin]

prioritizing "change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience" is probably the most useless sentences i've heard in a while

[kidmosey]

There's another silver lining: This could fortify the OS against whatever 0-Day exploits governments are relying on. It might also wake people up to the dangers of our current state of software dependency chains.

[the_expidition]

Corporate slimes lost billions and received negative consequences for their outsourcing decisions hell yes

[XN_]

hasn't crowdstrike had multiple incidents in the past too? while kernel level drivers are a big problem for a lot of reasons, it should also be a wakeup call that crowdstrike should not be trusted this widely

[maddsua]

"Most linux users don't want a proprietary anti chear program running in their kernel..." heck, I don't even want that to run on my windows machine for that matter

[AshnSilvercorp]

security at the kernel level really sounds like the job of the OS, and if the OS doesn't take full responsibility, whoever admins the system should...
inviting a third-party in feels like it's just asking for an issue.
No doubt it will continue in the corporate space, but... you're already monitored in the corporate space. Let them have their fun and please, repair the consumer space that has been plagued with anti-cheat solutions that have not been effective at all, because of course, hackers that care still somehow get their own signed kernel module to bork kernel anti-cheat anyways.

[КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

The response is just...it's like the finger to everybody
"Have a $10 ubereats gift card" is like getting a chili's coupon that expires tomorrow after getting fired

[NeverTrust]

I've got the feeling that devs at Microsoft HQ knew something like this could happen but they always take orders from upper management...

[matthewstott]

Back in June, CrowdStrike Falcon managed to kernel panic Linux. Not supposed to be able to crash the kernel with a kernel module but perhaps a kernel bug is root cause. On macOS, Falcon doesn't have kernel access.

[theharbingerofconflation]

If you need kernel level anti-cheat software your whole game is designed wrong

[QwertyAD]

Lets be honest, microsoft is just gonna do whatever makes them more money.
like always.