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What makes CrowdStrike so ubiquous that their error created such catastrophe? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basically, drivers can launch code all the way up to ring 0, the highest level a code can access to. This mean it runs its code with the same priviledges as the kernel itself. The anti-malware solution CrowdStrike makes use of this access to determine what could be going wrong, and deploy solutions accordingly.

If a code running in that level crashes, Windows will rightfully assume there's something really fucked up is going on, and give out a BSOD.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's something really fucked up going on

I would actually prefer this kind of error over the usual and equally uninformative "Oopsie! Something went wrong. We're sorry :("