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Re:F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code by natebc on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:46AM (#45603378)
The Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor agent (with a kernel module) establishes TLS connections to several random AWS endpoints.

I really have no idea how security people think this is a good thing aside from checkbox compliance but man-o-man do they love it.

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Re:F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code by neffy on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:06AM (#45604855)
Well honestly, this security person thinks its a terrible idea - but needless to say the people selling those systems disagree - and for non-technical management, it ticks the compliance box and they get back to their jobs.
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