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warlaan ,

I doubt that this move has made them much more “safe and controllable”, it just means that they depend on a different system. I mean as soon as a bug pops up in their software the rest of the world will be fine.

anachronist ,

I mean yeah I don’t think Chinese companies are going to have crowdstrike installed given that it’s essentially a rootkit controlled by an American company. It’d be like American companies installing Kaspersky or Xuexi Qiangguo.

freagle ,

Tying your operating system fundamentals to proprietary network services that require active and paid-up accounts was never going to be a good idea.

carl_dungeon ,

That’s not a USA vs China thing, I work in enterprise cloud, we use Linux.

dephyre ,
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Non-paywall; archive.is/…/microsoft-outage-leaves-china-largel…

PanArab ,
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Beyond China. This incident reminded of a post by WineHQ on the danger of software monoculture.

wiki.winehq.org/Importance_Of_Wine

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