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If such a huge security company cannot get this right, there's no way in hell one can trust a game company to do so.
Last edited by emphy on 19 July 2024 at 10:31 am UTC
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I haven't thought of that until now...
Don't let companies control your computers seems to be the lesson here.
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 19 July 2024 at 10:39 am UTC
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Also I wonder if they had used Linux instead in affected places if there would have been the need for such a security framework in the first place or if this is all to be blamed on the flawed system architecture of MS Windows?
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Yes, fully.
The big boy security business works different than you might expect.
A hack can cost billions and your career if when and you don't know when or where it will come, but because of the risk if you can't proof you've a strategy against it you will have a problem.
As such the relevant authority figures will (understandably) simply try to buy it off, because when you've bought protection you can simply show the receipts and say: "they were just too strong".
This is true for Linux and windows.
Linux/windows hacks exist.
As such Linux/windows security products exist.
Now what would a (legit) linux security product offer.
A sanitized 3rd party backup of all the data and clean images of the relevant programs against ransomware.
Company specific monitoring.
If I can measure enough legit activity I can make a stricter permission structure.
If due to measuring I find out that the director of hr never queries the age of people and only their salaries I can revoke their access to it, so that if they get hacked an attack will be harder.
etc.