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Could our Macs be CrowdStruck?


What caused so many PCs running Windows to crash into the Blue Screen of Death? Could it happen to our Macs too?

When CrowdStrike for macOS started using a System Extension nearly four years ago, it even proclaimed that “reducing the need for privileged access is always a more secure approach and we are proud to embrace this new architecture.” Little more than eight years ago, on 26 February 2016, a silent automatic update to the macOS Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data came close to breaking most Macs of the day. That brought two serious problems: as the Ethernet port has been widely used to identify individual Macs, many apps were unable to run, and those without the fallback of WiFi networking were isolated from the Internet, so couldn’t download and install the emergency update that Apple released to fix the defective file.

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