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Indeed, pity that we need major failures like these, for goverments to finally start paying attention to give the same kind of laws as anything else, instead of careless EULAs and updates without field testing.


It's very bizarre to me how normalized we have made kernel-level software in critical systems. This software is inherently risky but companies throw it around like it's nothing. And cherry on top, we let it auto-update too. I'm surprised critical failures like this don't happen more often.




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