Wonderful Explanation By Former Microsoft Engineer On What Happened On Friday With Crowdstrike ▉

This is a great explanation in layman’s terms about kernels and what’s technically allowed to happen in them. It’s why people freak out about things like kernel level anti cheat in games: it’s completely unnecessary.

At this point the only real question I have is why does Windows allow this? I know Macs don’t and I’m not sure about Linux since I don’t use it on a daily basis but I’m pretty sure this would’t fly there either.

The fact that so much of the computer systems that we depend on for critical things runs on Windows genuinely scares me.

UPDATE: Apparently not only does CrowdStrike exist on Linux but it’s also been causing issues there too.

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