▲ 83 ▼ Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage | Euronews (www.euronews.com) submitted 2 years ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 38 points 2 years ago (3 children) Why is Microsoft defending Crowdstrike? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 44 points 2 years ago My guess: Because they reviewed and signed the kernel space code which calls code that is unreviewed and unsigned (or, at the very least, pulls directly from files that are unreviewed and unsigned without proper validation or error checking), calling out CrowdStrike's failure puts them on the hook too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Strykker@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago They aren't, it's more "it's the EUs fault for forcing us to allow businesses like cloud strike to write kernel level antivirus, because we already have our own." permalink fedilink source parent [–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Exactly, wtf. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 44 points 2 years ago My guess: Because they reviewed and signed the kernel space code which calls code that is unreviewed and unsigned (or, at the very least, pulls directly from files that are unreviewed and unsigned without proper validation or error checking), calling out CrowdStrike's failure puts them on the hook too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Strykker@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago They aren't, it's more "it's the EUs fault for forcing us to allow businesses like cloud strike to write kernel level antivirus, because we already have our own." permalink fedilink source parent