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> So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself.

TIL that US government has pressured foreign nations to install a mystery blob in the kernel of machines that run critical software "for compliance".

If this wasn't a providential goof on the part of Crowdstrike -- the entire planet is now aware of this little known fact -- then some helpful soul in Crowdstrike has given us a heads-up.



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