Thoughts and prayers go out to all those experts who have to explain the background of today's clownstrike oopsie to the befuddled press.
It takes some non-trivial mental contortion to explain the whole "people installing a backdoor on their computers for some company to execute privileged code, written in an unsafe language, in order to make their computers more secure" thing.
@nblr Ist halt im Zweifel leider der Unterschied zwischen: Du hast Kunden und kannst denen was verkaufen oder du kannst zu machen.
Ich seh das ja bei meinem Brötchengeber gerade.
Gibt sehr viele Leute, die das eigentlich besser wissen, aber das Spiel halt mitspielen müssen.
I've noticed this too, to my great dismay.
And would like to propose the term "#enshittipliance" for this.
(for the capturing of compliance mechanisms by snake-oil sellers etc.)
@sebastian @nblr I see a business opportunity here:
A Windows AntiVirus program that installs a kernel driver whose entire implementation is a no-op. The guarantee, which I am 100% willing to stand behind, is that, in the absolute worst case, it does not lower the overall security of your system. As such, it is best in class and you can install it and meet your compliance obligations.
@david_chisnall
Do you mean our best in class security solution that integrates perfectly with existing OS mechanisms such as windows defender to provide state of the art protection without any performance overhead?
Well, the whole concept *is* fucked up, isn't it?
@Ifrauding @nblr nö, nicht alle: seit 20 Jahren privat Linux User. Noch kein BOD.
Naja: bei meinem Arbeitgeber schon mal. Aber da ist's ein PAL, ich verkaufe Software, ich bin nicht Programmierer, Betreiber oder Support.
Und mein derzeitiger stellt mir die Wahl „Windows, Linux oder Apple“ sogar frei.
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