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The real blame lies on the fact that Windows lets hundreds of companies like Crowdstrike ship kernel-level software to millions of computers. The fact that this incident was caused by an accidental bug is hilarious, but we're lucky that it wasn't someone pushing malicious software instead.
Windows drivers are a huge liability and I wouldn't be surprised if the next time is a state actor like Russia pushing kernel-level malware.
The real fuck up is that Crowdstrike Falcon can auto update through its own updater, and doesn't have any kind of control panel for management that could be used for change control. If their customers could have tested this update first, none of this would be happening.
an antivirus-like software is something you want auto updates for in my opinion