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Munkisquisher

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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I work in an environment where the workstations aren’t on the Internet there’s a separate network, there’s still a need for antivirus and we were hit with bsod yesterday

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A remote server that you pay some serious money to that pushes a garbage driver that prevents yours from booting

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Oh yes I make those failures myself, testing and staging and limited release schedules save my human failures from breaking the world

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And people need to travel to remote machines to do this in person

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Yeah saw that several steel mills have been bricked by this, that’s months and millions to restart

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Won’t take that long, security researchers are already decompiling the update to see if it was malicious or incompetence.

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I have a athom smart switch plugged between the wall and the washing machine just for power monitoring. When the power is above a certain level for thirty sec, then drops below a certain level for thirty sec. It announces over the Google home that the washing is done.

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That’s how it works in NZ, you can request anything, but the govt can also charge you the costs of collating that data beyond a certain point

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It’s also one of the most abundant elements in the universe

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