[cyrnel]

I'm no kernel expert, but people are saying Microsoft deserves some blame for not exposing necessary functionality to user space, requiring the use of a very-unsafe kernel driver.

Linux provides eBPF and macOS provides system extensions.

I'll also add that Windows itself heavily prioritizes backwards-compatibility over security, which leads companies to seek out third-party solutions for stopping malware instead of design-based mitigations being built into Windows.

[mardifoufs]

I don't agree. I'm glad Microsoft doesn't provide the functionality to do what crowdstrike does to user space. Crowdstrike acts in a similar way to deeply seated malware, except that it is usually installed voluntarily. But the behavior and capabilities that it has are basically what any malware would dream of, and exposing them to user space would imo create a mess (especially on windows). If anything, this is good as it will make people even more weary of kernel mode software.

And I'm not sure epbf actually allows you to do a lot of the stuff crowdstrike-like software does. I know they use it on Linux though so maybe eBPF has evolved a lot since I last looked at it.

[cyrnel]

I generally agree with you. It's an either-or thing: either Microsoft secures their OS, or they provide safe ways for users to secure their OS. The first option is a million times better, but having neither option leads us to this mess.