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No, the userspace program will replace it with a good version.

Their stock price will suffer but they can waive license fees for a year or so for every endpoint affected (~$50).

They better pin this on a rogue employee, but even then, force pushing updates shouldn't be in their capability at all! They must guarantee removal of that capability.

Lawsuits should be interesting. They offer(ed?) $1 mil breach insurance to their customers, so if they were to pay only that much per customer this might be compensation north of $10B. But to be honest, wouldn't surprise me if they can pay up without going bankrupt.

The sad situation is, as twitter people were pointing out, IT teams will use this to push back against more agents for a long time to come. But in reality, these agents are very important.

Crowdstrike Falcon alone is probably the single biggest security improvement any company can make and there is hardly any competition. This could have been any security vendor, the impact is so widespread because of how widely used they are, but there is a reason why they are so widely used to begin with.

Oh and just fyi, the mitigation won't leave you unprotected, when you boot normal, the userspace exe's will replace it with a fixed version.

Yes, it offers very real protection. Crowdstrike in particular is the best in the market, speaking from experience and having worked with their competitor's products as well and responded to real world compromises.

So long as those people are adults who are functional (can care for themselves), it isn't society's business to protect them from self-harm. Your sensible checks are violations of liberty. A person's right and authority over themselves being infringed is a loss of liberty. Society gets involved when their actions affect non-consenting members of society.

More cores and memory channels+bandwidth would have been nice.

If we aren't regulated then anti-drug laws shouldn't exist. A government made up of it's people cannot regulate it's people by virtue of having a superior self control or wisdom. How can there be liberty without this?

Those are private properties or privileged activities. Eating poison, in your private home being regulated means your home is not truly yours and you have no liberty.

So we are properties regulated by the state, even though the state is made up of laypersons?

Try this with visual studio and x64. Microsoft!!

Ok, why not?

Some free society we live in. The feds are just looking out for their real employers: the oligarchs and their companies.

If they stuck to binary libraries that would have been nice but since you have to build deps locally and match up the right versions, go and rust programs have been a constant headache for me similar to python. The version from debian repos never seems to be good enough, I have to install it from upstream and maintain it.

While I still do run into 2.7 code, even for 3 dependencies are the problem. You always use a library of some kind and that library could use a new python feature. You could pin it but then other scripts that need the new version break. And that is if you could even easily find the module and version. Just this week I helped someone troubleshoot a bug they've been trying to fix for weeks/months and it was just a matter of the library code being too new for 3.6. It's an ever growing planned mess.

Not if you use any libraries. The whole venv/pyenv/pipx stuff of python needs to implemented for other languages too. Every program needing it's own virtual environment and tooling for every build.