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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m not in favor of a cashless society but looking at how Apple and Google are pushing their wallets (and how practical it is) you guys need to come to piece with the fact that cash might die with the millennial generation. Most Gen X don’t have / want a physical wallet and money needs to be digital.

With that said, I believe this Crowdstrike fiasco just proved that the biggest threat to IT lies inside the companies themselves and on the managers who decide to use this kind malware without properly understanding the risks. Yes, I’ve said it and I’ll say it again Crowdstrike is malware, anything that messes with Windows at that level is malware, there’s no other description and shouldn’t be allowed by Microsoft to exist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im the Xer type with no smartphone and prefers the wallet. I remember so many shows or street people with paranoia would have the horror of government trackers but I find the horror of corporate trackers to be much worse and far to real now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, those same people totally paranoid about govt tracker are now carrying smartphones around no problem, how ironic isn’t it? :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Industry standard solution that protects companies against malware is malware? Any proper AV will have unrestricted access to system. Only other option is for companies to completely lock down your device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. It is.

Any system with this level of access to the system should be opensource and tested against actual workloads before shipping updates to prod.

Something like ebpf would make more sense too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Here’s the thing, malware protection is supposed to deliver protection and one important aspect of that is making sure there’s business continuity… what they did was to completely fuck over their customers in that aspect, they become the problem and I bet that most companies running their solution would never suffer any catastrophic failure this bad if they didn’t run their software at all. No hacker would be able to take down so many systems so fast and so hard.

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

I carry cash and so do many of the younger people I know. It is handy sometimes and happens to be private.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Me too, but we're not the majority.