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Ask HN: Can we blame Windows for CrowdStrike outage?

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Re: Ask HN: Can we blame Windows for CrowdStrike outage?

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Post by greatgib »

A key moment about Windows for me is when I did read the windows official driver development guide and discovered that the real name of "bsod" is in fact "BUGCHECK".

Then you understand that it is not the core that crashed, but if there is any error, in any driver, the mandated behavior is to trigger a "BUGCHECK" in the same way that you would just do a printf(error) usually...

Re: Ask HN: Can we blame Windows for CrowdStrike outage?

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Post by dirtdobber »

aptgetrekt wrote: post #37

As far as I understand, yes. It's kind of astounding to me that the world has self-inflicted what is essentially a cyber attack trying to protect a poorly architected OS from actual cyber attacks when a much better architected OS is known and running on nearly all the servers in the world. On Windows, software regularly mucks around in the kernel (device drivers, system level tools like wireshark, etc), therefore it…

> In Linux, software doesn't even get that option. Nothing ever gets kernel access except the kernel itself.

what about loadable kernel modules?

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