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		jhaile on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times"... Why should any application be able to crash the OS? Poor OS design.

consteval on July 19, 2024 | [–]

It's not an application, it's effectively a driver. It runs in kernel space. So if it has a memory bug you can't recover, you just panic. Whoopsie!

surfingdino on July 19, 2024 | [–]

You don't say.

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