Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Date: 21 Jul 2024 18:01:17 GMT Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <87h6cl74ix.fsf@tilde.institute> <09a33276-1f22-a9af-6c0b-990cef30f9ad@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net khNZ8i4TqBAHAE5iCSRCOgnEKsv0meQvR4VpQQ2OizNnUXJA5Y Cancel-Lock: sha1:w7QUIma8i4y+R2IhT+nq6XQZzDo= sha256:JQuTmEO+E/zNuCSD1kM6H6KmkEzZtVGe82vmr24I/XU= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.159 (Vovchansk; 31ef135; Linux-6.9.10) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:57111 On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:23:08 +0200, D wrote in <09a33276-1f22-a9af-6c0b-990cef30f9ad@example.net>: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2024, Popping Mad wrote: > >> On 7/20/24 8:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:08:50 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote: >>> >>>> But immediately ruling out this scenario for Linux systems sounds >>>> quite unrealistic to me. (And, from what I've read yesterday, I got >>>> the impression that there had been a similar incident with Linux >>>> systems, but I didn't study that further.) >>> >>> Sure. But remember, the various pieces of a Linux system are just >>> inherently put together in a more modular, flexible fashion, and that >>> includes systemd. That does reduce the chance for trouble quite >>> significantly. >> >> >> BTW - you are now in my kill fly, so you can troll the back of the hand >> now... >> >> > Wise choice! I also discovered that Lawrence was just a troll and choose > the same action. He really has nothing of value to say in my opinion. There's a far cry from "I disagree" to "nothing of value". I don't agree with everything Lawrence posts, and I've called him out on his "snip and snark" style, but not everything he posts is without merit. Regarding the crowdstrike matter: It seems that Linux systems would be much less vulnerable to such SNAFUs -- and there are Linux distributions that don't use systemd, if that is a concern. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.9.10 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G "He's dead Jim. Grab his tricorder. I'll get his wallet."