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Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed by protomolecule on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:23AM (#41023693)
"But in a non-dysfunctional company, you have a hierarchy of trust, where each management level knows and trusts the people above and below them. "

Even in a company of two sometimes a husband or a wife betrays the trust. Now multiply that probability by 50000.

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Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:49AM (#41024415)
Yet we don't apply total surveillance to people. The reason isn't just ethics and US constitution, but also that it's just not possible without destroying society. Same perhaps applies to computer systems.
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Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed by protomolecule on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:55AM (#41024447)
Which is a completely different argument
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Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:59AM (#41024461)
I think it doesn't. I think that the kind of security the likes of CrowdStrike promise is fundamentally impossible to have, and pursuing it is a fool's errand.
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