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Re:No More Blue Fridays by lucianbr on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:05AM (#41034524)
Obviously in userspace it would only crash the running program and not the entire operating system? It's a significant difference.

All of the service interruptions would have been just "computer temporarily not protected by crowdstrike agent". Not the same thing at all.

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Re:No More Blue Fridays by CodeWriter23 on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:14AM (#41034646)
> It's a significant difference.

When various apps running the world are crashing, unable to execute because malware protection is failing, there is no difference.

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Re:No More Blue Fridays by macobrien on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:52AM (#41035122)
_No_ difference oversells it, IMO -- the fact that the entire OS crashed is what made fixing the bug so arduous, since it required in-person intervention. To be sure, running the code in userspace would still cause unacceptable service interruptions, but the fix could be applied remotely.
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Re:No More Blue Fridays by chrisjj on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:52AM (#41045002)
> Obviously in userspace it would only crash the running program and not the entire operating system? It's a significant difference.

Significant and often far worse. It would leave the machine running unprotected.

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