[Discuss] CrowdStrike

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> On 7/24/24 08:21, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> Thoughts:
>> (1) loading pcode into a kernel driver. Are you kidding me?
>
> What is pcode? Pascal?

I'm not sure which flavor of "pcode" which is a portable code, like java
byte-code.

>
>
>> (2) loading pcode (in any environment) without basic sanity checks
>> (checksum, structural verification, etc.) is total incompetence. This is
>> a
>> disaster waiting to happen, even a little bit-rot could create a problem
>> that would be difficult to diagnose and fix.
>
> Almost as if no one sat down, thought it through, and did a careful
> design. Heck, who needs to think and design anything these days now that
> we have "design patterns" and "best practices"? If the well formatted
> little code changes that reviewers recognize ("design patterns") and
> don't need to think about get approved, that's "best practices"!

I know, it's insane.

>
>
>> (3) Unstaged rollout: amateur hour nonsense.
>
> That is something they were explicitly selling as a feature (speed!),
> not a bug. Right?
>

Seriously.

>
> -kb
>
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