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Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by tptacek on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:31PM (#12756741)
It is very unlikely that Crowdstrike is making things up.

I think very few people on HN understand how Crowdstrike works. Know how every Fortune-1000 company in the world has McAfee or Norton Antivirus installed (or at least used to)? Crowdstrike is like that, except they hoover up all the malware detection stuff they do on endpoints to a central data center and correlate it across customers.

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Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by hueving on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:29AM (#12758342)
Hats off to a company that can convince companies to become a member of its botnet and charge for the privilege!
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Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by tptacek on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:40PM (#12761913)
What widely-deployed desktop software can you not say this about?
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Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by hueving on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:09PM (#12766365)
grep

More seriously, anything not phoning home with traffic patterns for things that 'might be attacks'.

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