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		natebc 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, so... The Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor agent (with a kernel module) establishes TLS connections to several random AWS endpoints. I really have no idea how security people think this is a good thing aside from checkbox compliance but man-o-man do they love it.

neffy 4 months ago [–]

Well honestly, this security person thinks its a terrible idea - but needless to say the people selling those systems disagree - and for non-technical management, it ticks the compliance box and they get back to their jobs.

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