Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Cappyjax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cappyjax</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.radio/@WB2EEE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WB2EEE</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zug.network/@Zugschlus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Zugschlus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/elly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>elly</span></a></span> </p><p>I disagree with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Cappyjax/112821333101353573" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">your assessment</a> to some extent, as on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> there's not much of a tolerace or even acceptance of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/rootkits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rootkits</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CorwdStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorwdStrike</span></a> for all the right reasons!</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Scareware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scareware</span></a> like that has <em>no legitimate reason to exist</em> and the only place I've seen that is on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> because people distrusting <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsDefender</span></a> and thus <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> are unwilling to to what is <em>evidently the correct solution</em> and yeet Windows for good.</li></ul><p>Cuz it's not about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Fanboyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fanboyism</span></a>, but a fact that most Windows - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sysadmins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sysadmins</span></a> (or rather decisionmakers for that matter) seem to be high on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Copium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copium</span></a> and refuse to take actual <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/consequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consequences</span></a> but accept the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> as a fact of life when it's not...</p><ul><li>Or am I the only one who remembers the rightful backclash when <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> were shoved into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> whilst on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows10</span></a> people just seem to shrug their shoulders?</li></ul><p>It's just that this entire shitshow would not have happened on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> because here we don't have an entire ecosystem of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ValueRemoving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ValueRemoving</span></a> <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AntiVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVirus</span></a>"</em> bs being shoved on Desktops and Servers in the form of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Binaryblob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Binaryblob</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Kernelhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kernelhacks</span></a>!</p>