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Re:No More Blue Fridays by nine_k on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:07AM (#41034552)
At Ring 3 it would crash an app, not the entire OS.

Yes, the kernel is fine and is not to blame. But running basically a rootkit controlled by a third party indeed is to blame.

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Re:No More Blue Fridays by CodeWriter23 on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:13AM (#41034624)
> At Ring 3 it would crash an app, not the entire OS.

That's still an outage for those key systems.

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Re:No More Blue Fridays by nequo on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:54AM (#41035151)
It is an outage for the monitoring system, not the system that it monitors.
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Re:No More Blue Fridays by CodeWriter23 on Monday July 22, 2024 @07:07PM (#41040773)
I think a reasonable protocol is to stop using any apps when your cyber protection crashes. Why have that suite at all otherwise?
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Re:No More Blue Fridays by nequo on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:18AM (#41064953)
I agree for some systems. For others, stopping the system has bigger consequences than not having cyber protection for a few hours because of a bug that’ll get fixed. For example, hospitals, or possibly Delta Airlines.
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