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Are We Too Dependent on Microsoft? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does Mac OS have an ebpf API like Linux has, or would a similar crowdstrike bug kill a Mac as well? The issue is that windows doesn't really have a way to do this without a kernel driver, which can take the whole system down if there's a bug.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    https://developer.apple.com/documentation/endpointsecurity

    This API allows for security applications to monitor for potentially malicious behaviors. As it is part of the System Extension and DriverKit, it shouldn’t crash the system kernel… but you do need to request for entitlement from Apple to build apps using that API (honestly probably a good thing, prevents spywares using it to spy on people).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Seems like windows really is behind when it comes to this then, if everyone else has a proper solution. Still, I feel this is more on crowdstrike than Microsoft. For whatever reason they didn't have the right processes in place to avoid pushing bad code.

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