Venia Silente

If the kernel module Crowdstrike uses for Linux systems

Who who conscientiously uses Linux would allow a kernel level module solution such as this into their systems?

luck? I have a $5* wrench.

* (Actually a $7 wrench. Inflation is murder around here.)

But that can be said of any of the other such called factors:

A yubikey can be stolen

A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed

So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).

Isn’t the idea that not everyone has access to your biometrics?

There’s honestly no need to make computers ask people for piss scans:

something you know

A password

something you have

Access to the password

something you are

The person who knows the password

Even worse for privacy, it uses the Chrome engine.

This could enable prosthetics with full dexterity that you can control. It could be life changing for some people.

This has already enabled corporations to force people to go under surgery to remove senses or limbs that had already been restored. With this technology, your body autonomy is now live service.