“Justice delayed is justice denied”

Anarchism is all about working together to build a better world where everyone has all of their needs met,

Hmm, I was working with the classic disctionary definition which is “a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.”

But you’re right, anarchism does have that other meaning, so perhaps a better word would be “chaos”.

His actions in supporting Trump in the US, promoting hate and extermist views on X globally, and encouraging civil war in the UK do all fit a chaos agenda. That’s not about money - at least, not that I can see.

He is one of the world’s most dangerous people, however, and I don’t say that lightly. Not least because of his history of being unpredictable.

More governments should follow Brazil’s example and push back.

He has more than anyone else in the history of the world. By any scale, he’s won at money.

That’s been said, and perhaps it has been true. But when you’re the richest man in the world by a significant margin, you have literally won at money and to remain competitive you need to move onto other things. Like the power of politics, and working to destabilise multiple countries at once.

He’s already got all the money and most of the power. Now his hobby is far right extremism and anarchy.

Over the past year Musk has removed all masks and clearly believes he can operate beyond the law. His motives are clearly to watch the world burn. He is an extremely dangerous, unpredictable and powerful man, threatening democracy across the globe.

Our governments need to protect us from him. Brazil’s being brave here, I hope they’re just the first.

Let me guess - their marketing strategy is to be deliberately provocative to get clickbait coverage?

The BBC still uses it to break news, I’m saddened to say.

Fun - we get to see how susceptible Meta is to blackmail, for that’s what this is. “Illegal” from Mr Trump means “Anything I don’t agree with”

Or at least, those influencing in favour of Trump and general chaos.

Working in IT doesn’t mean you know everything about what’s on the internet.

(Source: I also work in IT. A toddler with a tablet knows more about a lot of things online than I do)

No shit. The amount of far-right propaganda, hate and disinformation it’s pushing is so much that it’s pretty much over the line as an extremist site now, and I expect it to start getting flagged as that with a lot more organisations.

Musk wants to set the world on fire and X is his box of matches.

Rubber Duck debugging.

By its own shareholders?

Are they just trying to get some money out before class actions from its customers decimate the company?

Maybe, but it’s not going to happen soon. Any malware type insurance requires effective AV on all devices, and C-levels do love their insurance.

Not just Crowdstrike - any vendor that does automatic updates, which is more and more each day. Microsoft too big for a bad actor to do as you describe? Nope. Anything relying on free software? Supply chain vulnerabilities are huge and well documented - its only a matter of time.

Why would you want another year of their software for free?

Because AV, like everything else, costs a fortune at enterprise scale.

And yeah, I do understand your real point, but it’s really hard to choose good software. Every purchasing decision is a gamble and pretty much every time you choose something it’ll go bad sooner or later. (We didn’t imagine Vmware would turn into an extortion racket, for example. And we were only saying a few months ago how good value and reliable PRTG was, and they’ve just quadrupled their costs)

It doesn’t matter how much due diligence and testing you put into software, it’s really hard to choose good stuff. Crowdstrike was the choice a year ago (the Linux thing was more recent than that), and its detection methods remain world class. Do we trust it? Hell no, but if we change to something else, there are risks and costs to that too.

I lost a day’s holiday, and our team spent 8 man days on this entirely preventable mistake.

$10? Try extending our licence by another year for free, that might start going towards it.

It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.

It seems to be crowdstrike reacting to the new update.

We have got ours up by the very manual process of:

1 Boot into safe mode.

2. Navigate to C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike

3. Delete C-00000291*.sys

4. Reboot normally