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> Wouldn't this be an attack vector?

Isn't DoSing your own OS an attack vector? and a worse one when it's used in critical infrastructure where lives are at stake.

There is a reasonable balance to strike, sometimes it's not a good idea to go to extreme measures to prevent unlikely intrusion vectors due to the non-monetary costs.

See: The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero.




In the absence of a Crowdstrike bug, if an attacker is able to cause Crowdstrike to trigger a bluescreen, I assume the attacker would be able to trigger a bluescreen in some other way. So I don't think this is a good argument for removing the check.


That assumes it's more likely than crowdstrike mass bricking all of these computers... this is the balance, it's not about possibility, it's about probability.


I think we're in agreement. I now realize my previous comment replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0. Sorry.




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