[Info-vax] A meditation on the Antithesis of the VMS Ethos

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:24:14 +1000, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

> https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

“No one noticed” ... perhaps because hardly anybody is using these
sorts of intrusive EDR products on Linux?

Another thing that reduces the chance of screwups: a poster in another
group gave this link to a comment by long-time Linux contributor
Matthew Garrett: on Windows, CrowdStrike has to load its own
proprietary kernel driver to do its anti-malware checks, but on Linux
they just rely on the standard configurable EBPF facility. This helps
to reduce the chance of things going wrong.

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