[Discuss] CrowdStrike

[Kent Borg]

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…?


> (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"!


> (3) Unstaged rollout: amateur hour nonsense.

That is something they were explicitly selling as a feature (speed!), 
not a bug. Right?


-kb