Oh cool. Cool cool cool.
Crowdstrike processes their signature files in kernel mode. Defender helpfully pastes malware over system files. Ivanti has a new critical vulnerability every week or so. Why are security vendors incompetent?
Because they know they have such a chokehold on the market. I remember back in the XP days it felt like every year there was a new top tier security product that people were trying.
You’re telling me that Window’s built-in antivirus software is what actually installs the virus? 🤣🤣🤣
This must be part of the “Windows commitment to quality”.
In case anyone else interprets this wrong: he means Proof of Concept code.
Your comment reminded me of this moment I had at an office lunch table:
Someone from sales: I’ve been having a terrible day, the P-O-C at {client company} is being annoying yadda yadda…
Someone from HR: glaring, and taking mental notes.
Me, a dev: wondering how things could’ve gone wrong considering that we hadn’t even shipped anything for them.
It took us all a moment to realize that "PoC " meant different things to each of us - Point of Contact, Person of Colour, and Proof of Concept. Somehow the salesperson could’ve been talking about any of those and it’d make, so none of us questioned ourselves first.
It’s even funnier with “point of sale” machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌
Well that’s one wide open backdoor. More like a back gate, really.
A facade, even.
Like an old Western set. All front wall, nothing in the back.
85% or more of the cybersecurity market is about, and because of, Windows.
Srs, if Windows wasn’t used at all, cybersecurity would be as big an industry as Etsy.
Windows tries to mimic Unix for all its “important” features, but it isn’t. It’s a surveillance slop sundae on top of decades of organic growth on top of bad decisions based on DOS. And it’s made them one of the richest companies in the history of the world.
Story time: There was another operating system very much like Windows called OS/2. This operating system was made by IBM and Microsoft. It even had DOS and NT kernel compatibility and is where the NT kernel came from. While MS and IBM were working on OS/2 MS secretly developed Windows and made deals with third-party PC manufacturers like HP and Compaq for them to run Windows and not OS/2. Despite the fact that Microsoft was where it was then because IBM had chosen DOS for its PC operating system until that time.
OS/2 still got an interesting life though. It was widely used as an embedded operating system well into the 2000s. If you ever used an ATM or cash register in the early 2000s you almost certainly used OS/2.
Windows did not get where it is today through organic growth. It did so by standing on the shoulders of giants and dealing under the table.
