Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has been sued by investors who say it provided false claims about its Falcon platform after a bad security update led to a massive global IT outage causing the stock price to tumble almost 38%.

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    4 months ago

    I’ve said this but people insist that it’s a physical impossibility to prevent drivers from killing the operating system. You know even though safe mode does exist and enabling safe mode did fix the problem. Apparently auto enabling safe mode is Impossible.

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      Until we have widespread use of modular kernels and/or user-space drivers I don’t think we will be preventing driver bluescreens any time soon.