If one company has an embarrassing breach, it can make or break things at a critical moment. When every company has an embarrassing outage at the same time, Crowdstrike customers' stock will be just fine.
Crowdstrike stock dropped after July but the share price is still a hundred dollars higher than it was a year ago. It's going to recover. There will be no negative long term consequences for them.
First, I agree. Even today a lot of games have 'anti-cheat' modules that will hook into the kernel.
And yes, Microsoft wants to lock down the kernel as a result.
But, that is one step closer to the future from "The right to read".
Now the board can look at this they can take to Congress. They can wave it around and say “See, look, we’re taking responsibility. “We’re doing the right thing, etc. blah blah blah blah blah blah. We’re gonna hold this guy accountable and shake our fist really hard and look at this: We even put a bad story out on a big paper.”
It’s cost of doing business - built into the risk model for TOS and legal scope within the likely amount of payout in settlement.
It’s all a huge joke