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Ask Noah Show 400 | Open Source Crowdstike Alternative

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This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is.

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Crowd Strike Outage
  • Caused by defective update
  • Affected all Windows computers
  • 8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable
  • Flights grounded
  • Entire health care sectors shut down
  • Kernel vs User mode
  • WHQL Certification
  • Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification
  • Anti-virus
  • Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection
  • Channel Files
  • Microsoft could have provided an API
  • EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows
  • No checks on the channel file
  • Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver"
  • April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe
  • George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents
  • Handing off risk/PCI
  • We understand less and less
  • Understand your critical paths and have a back up
  • Hair shop "crash kit"
  • Cold spare emergency laptops/servers
  • Test on small set up machines then deploy
  • Don't push to prod on Friday
  • Keeping up to date is the best defense
  • Have a roll back plan
  • USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
  • Linux Crash Restoration (The Register)
  • SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment
  • Phoronix
  • Wazuh Post
  • LibreNMS
  • CISA.gov
  • Tech Crunch
    • 38:18 News Wire

    • Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet

    • OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org

    • KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us

    • EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix

    • Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet

    • Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet

    • AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post

    • Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat

      • 39:25 System76 Cosmic Alpha Release
      • August 8th
      • What other company is focused on the Linux desktop?
      • System76 decided to make their own desktop, Cosmic
      • Constant friction if forking another DE
      • Clean slate approach
      • System76 survey
      • System76 has been dog fooding
      • Modular design
      • Enabling "desktop experiences"
      • Try Cosmic and give polite productive feedback
      • System76 Transmission Log EP 10
        • 48:52 Immich
        • New License
          • Individual $24.99
          • Server $99.99
          • Immich came from a developer who wanted to replace Google Photos
          • Experience is better than Google Photos now
          • FUTO grant allows full time development
          • Go fund open source
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