Absolutely shameful display of how the cure can be worse than the disease. It's nonsense snake oil and security theater such as this that throws the cyber"security" industry into disrepute. One may as well have just installed McAfee Anti Virus.
This has been the story of the antivirus "industry" all along. They simultaneously seem to employ actual bona-fide security researchers while also making sure none of their software products are ever touched by people you could even refer to as "developers". I can't even imagine the noise at Microsoft from all the crash reports solely caused by antivirus software written by utter clowns injecting into other programs and, as here, into the kernel.
So much software - especially in the 'operating system' sphere of things - really is just snake oil.
Its just, very functional oil, in many cases - and highly toxic and slippery in many, many other cases.
>cyber "security" industry
Yes, I agree this is a market of smoke and mirrors, lies and propaganda.
The reason is, operating systems are broken. Pretty much all of them. Only, some of them work well enough to get a lot of work done, most of the time. Of the 99.9995% of the time it works, its great.
But, here's a thing I feel needs broader attention and discussion - It is my firm opinion that "Operating Systems Vendors" are a very poor, ragged class of professionals these days.
The decisions made at Microsoft - and other OS vendor corporations - have really lost the plot.
I can prove this by asking the golden question among the general public, and categorically get a standard response: "does this feature benefit the user, or does it benefit an advertiser?"
"No, this all seems to be some sort of setup. Windows doesn't feel like its for us, any more."
I mean, how many 3rd-party vendors do I need, secretly installing crippling 'updates' in my production systems, before I realize that there is no security, so write better software that doesn't need all this utter junk.
I mean this sincerely, operating systems vendors are treasonous to the user if 3rd parties are of more relevance to production runtime, than the thing the user very definitely needs to be operating.
The cloud is for backups, encrypted. It is made of snake oil.
