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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's a sequence of problems that lead to this:

  • The kernel driver should have parsed the update, or at a minimum it should have validated a signature, before trying to load it.
  • There should not have been a mechanism to bypass Microsoft's certification.
  • Microsoft should never have certified and signed a kernel driver that loads code without any kind signature verification, probably not at all.

Many people say Microsoft are not at fault here, but I believe they share the blame, they are responsible when they actually certify the kernel drivers that get shipped to customers.