"These are matters of national security at this point."
Which nation exactly? Who on earth "wins" by crashing vast numbers of PCs worldwide?
Many of the potential foes you might be thinking of are unlikely to actually run CS locally but its bad for business if your prey can't even boot their PCs and infra so you can scam them.
I might allow for a bunch of old school nihilists getting off on this sort of rubbish but it won't last and now an entire class of security software, standards and procedures will be fixed up. This is no deliberate "killer blow".
Who knew that well meaning security software running in Ring 0 could fuck up big style if QA takes a long walk off a short plank? Oh, anyone who worked in IT during the '90s and '00s! I remember Sophos and McAfee (now Trellix) and probably others managing to do something similar, back in the day.
Mono-cultures are subject to pretty catastrophic failures, by definition. If you go all in with the same thing as everyone else then if they sneeze, you will catch the 'flu too.
Which nation exactly? Who on earth "wins" by crashing vast numbers of PCs worldwide?
Many of the potential foes you might be thinking of are unlikely to actually run CS locally but its bad for business if your prey can't even boot their PCs and infra so you can scam them.
I might allow for a bunch of old school nihilists getting off on this sort of rubbish but it won't last and now an entire class of security software, standards and procedures will be fixed up. This is no deliberate "killer blow".
Who knew that well meaning security software running in Ring 0 could fuck up big style if QA takes a long walk off a short plank? Oh, anyone who worked in IT during the '90s and '00s! I remember Sophos and McAfee (now Trellix) and probably others managing to do something similar, back in the day.
Mono-cultures are subject to pretty catastrophic failures, by definition. If you go all in with the same thing as everyone else then if they sneeze, you will catch the 'flu too.