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The CrowdStrike debacle may have accidentally provided cybercriminals and countries like China a more detailed road map to disrupt US critical infrastructure (David E. Sanger/New York Times) (www.techmeme.com)

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David E. Sanger / New York Times: The CrowdStrike debacle may have accidentally provided cybercriminals and countries like China a more detailed road map to disrupt US critical infrastructure — With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn't caused by an adversary …

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it’s specifically allowed, yes. Windows is swiss cheese with tons of contaminants in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any remote monitoring software is a swiss cheese opening into your system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not necessarily. Proper permissions and lack of system bugs are ok to monitor, it doesn’t mean the system is less secure.