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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, ever heard freeBSD?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it supports kernel modules, so is also vulnerable to bad third party kernel code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

🤔if nobody makes a third party kernel module, then there is still no risk

[–] Passerby6497 9 points 4 months ago

Security through apathy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Also, even if they do, you can choose to not load it.

It amused me that so many people had this installed, but had no idea what it was for.