EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

In case it needs pointing out: Clickbait headline not backed by facts in article.

> In other words, third-party security vendors must get the same access as Microsoft's own products. Which, on the face of it, is fair enough.

Indeed, and that should be the end of this line of argumentation.

The issue here is not that Windows users are able to run highly privileged code, or that EU regulators (supposedly?) forces interoperability. There may be an issue in the specific way they chose to solve for it (as alluded to in the article and discussed on HN at length already) and in what software users end up running (duh).

I have a long list of criticisms of Microsoft and EU regulators both but the major issue here is systemic and cultural. There are other more direct and obvious ways in which running Windows for security-critical infrastructure is a terrible idea even disregarding that your antivirus updates could cause availability issues.

Most Linux users are one bad `curl https://whatever.com | sudo bash` away from having their machines completely pwned. This is not a fault of Linux distributions.

Discussion (64 points, 1 day ago, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590

That’s why I curse at Torvalds too every time my Linux machine breaks. He made it too open!