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Because most data center admins using linux are not so stupid to subscribe to remote updates from a third party. Linux issues happen when critical package vulnerabilities make it into the repo.
Tell me how you haven't worked as a sysadmin again.
This wasn't some switchable feature. The only way I've seen to stop this software from auto updating (per some comments on Hacker News/Y Combinator) as it chooses is by blocking the update servers at the firewall or through DNS black holing.
And yes, they chose to use this software. Look. Crowdstrike bought a fucking SuperBowl ad, a bunch of executives drank the kool aid, and a lot of tech departments were told that they'd be rolling this software out. That's just how corporate IT works sometimes.
I was saying:
Your response is not related in any way to that. If a third party software - running on system rights - forces auto-updates, that's called a "rootkit" and any sane admin would refuse to install such a package.
Competent here also meaning "if the upper management refuses to listen to my advice, I leave because I have other options". People who implement stupid policies - and especially technological solutions - against their principles are a cancer to democracy. Those are the people that enable tech-illiterate morons to implement totalitarian regimes.