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Services around the world seem to be affected. Reports of chaos at airports and hospitals emerge.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The irony of this whole situation is astounding.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tries to prevent bad actors sabotaging corporate computer systems; is bad actor sabotaging corporate computer systems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is why there’s gotta be a better way to monitor and secure than installing 3rd party root level software on systems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a great analogy to gun ownership in here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

An estimated 37 percent of gunshot injuries in the U.S. are the result of accidental shootings. https://www.thetrace.org/2022/12/accidental-shootings-cdc-data-children/

Thing that is supposed to protect people from bad circumstance causes bad circumstance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

That's a much better analogy than I was expecting. Well said.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

"I never thought guns would blow off my face!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Crowdstrike, it's the hip new ransomware.