• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They are legally required to let Crowdstrike crash your computer.

    I call Bullshit.

    If it had been Windows NT 3.5, there would have been no bluescreens around the world. It would have stopped the buggy software, given a message accordingly, and continued it’s job. That Windows was not stupid enough to crash itself just because of a null pointer in another software.

    Now you tell me that Windows NT 3.5 is illegal?

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          3 months ago

          Not then, but European anti trust lawsuits resulted in laws that require Microsoft to allow 3rd parties complete access. That means if the 3rd party software is a low level driver, it will crash the system. They are legally required to allow vendors the level of access that can crash the system.

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          3 months ago

          They were legally required to permit third party to install a kernel mode driver.

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          3 months ago

          A better comparison would be an iPhone. Apple has locked that down so much that it’s impossible to install something like CrowdStrike falcon, thus it’s not possible for something like this to happen.

          Microsoft is saying if the EU would let them, they too could lock down their platform enough to prevent this from happening.

          However, I would prefer to maintain control over my device and do what I want with it, instead of just what Apple/Microsoft want; even if that means I might break my device.