@bedast My problem is that these people refuse to take the correct consequences and migrate away from garbage:
You just don't install such garbage on #Unix-esque Systems like #Linux!
#CrowdStrike is just yet another #Scareware #Scam.
The entire business model of #AntiVirus and other Scareware shouldn't exist to begin with.
3rd party #BinaryBlobs on a non-#FLOSS'd kernel are just bad!
It should be #Microsoft's sole tesponsibility to just not allow #Rootkits / #Bootkits like that to exist eith their blessing aka. #Signature on.
#Windows & #WindowsServer are unbelieveably #cursed and unmaintainable mess that'll make even #Solaris 7 look clean and sleek.
The diversity of Linux and Unix-esque distros like #BSD's make it basically impossible to bmhave such a giant and direct effect.
The whole issue should've been avoided throug extensive testing because it's certainly so rampant that it would've been picked up by #QA testers.
The fuckedup-ness of #CensorBoot aka. "#SecureBoot" (which is insecure af - see #GoldenKeyBoot!) is the reason why this results in such catastrophic failures, whereas on #Linux one just uses #LUKS and can easily recover files.
Most Windows users & -#sysadmins neglect #Backups of Windows machines because there is no good way to backup them!
3rd party kernel binaryblobs are #malware, regardless if "Anti-Malware" or "#AntiCheat" is the claimed functionality.
If I don't trust #WindowsDefender then I don't trust Windows or rather Microsoft and thus have to cease using it!
"Linux would have prevented this!" literally true because my former colleague KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen, so everyone please say thank you to him
@vkc +9001%
And considering the shitshow of "#AI" garbage that @bagder recieves als "security reports" I'll likely ban any "#LLM" or other hallucinated / machine generated content as a matter of principle from all my projects!
@colincogle @joepie91 it's literally the same #OpenSource #Codebase just without #Microsoft's #proprietary #BinaryBlobs & #telemetry aka. #Spyware...
Even uses the same #AddOns...
In fact, I preinstall it as GUI Editor basically everywhere...
@anildash *nodds in agreement*
#Microsoft doesn't like #FLOSS unless they can exploit it for revenue.
Personally I use #VScodium sometimes but only since it's a #Fork of #VScode without shitty #BinaryBlobs.
But otherwise my #TechStack is #MicrosoftFree for obvious reasons:
I value my mental health more than my exploitability for #wagework!
@PeterCxy @SwiftOnSecurity whereas I can understand people using i.e. #eset on #linux for their #mailserver|s and #fileserver|s...
They are still #BinaryBlobs but at least they ain't so "fucky wucky" by using undocumented shit and act as #malware...
@lightweight If your hardware supports it, Trisquel gives a UX comparable to Mint (using their Mate desktop as the default interface), without any requirement for proprietary driver blobs in the Linux kernel.
HNode is a good place to find out about hardware that is compatible with free code, and to upload reports on how your own hardware performs:
https://h-node.org/
I hope I'm misreading the tails live config: it looks like binary firmware are included by default.
Filed https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12719 to clarify that
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