but the issue is that both Microsoft and Apple have procesees in place to avoid this scenario. CrowdStrike didn’t.
In Apple’s case, they have been working to force people out of the kernel for years, infuriating developers and ISVs, but Microsoft appeased them.
And given this, CrowdStrike-class bugs on MacOs would merely crash a user process, but brings down the system on windows.
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 /
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2024-07-20 12:20:05
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2024-07-20 12:20:05Event JSON
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