Hmm seems their play is to encourage security to experiment with AI e.g. Claude etc. Google's play seems to be spend 30 billion+ for Wiz and sell both the poison (AI) and the cure (Wiz security services). Interesting business models, reminds me of when CVS would sell cigarettes.
From what I've seen, CrowdStrike Falcon installations contain both the BPF components and the kernel module. (I think you can tell which one you're using: if falcon-sensor is running, it's the kernel module; if falcon-sensor-bpf is running, it's BPF.)
I manage systems running Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Rocky. Newer and older, kernel and BPF. And unfortunately, this issue is present across all of them.
The tool can still be used to run on a light weight Linux VM running on a Mac Mini or other Apple hardware. At the bare metal layer the host is an Apple branded computer running macOS.
I have two of these (for separate HVAC systems on top and bottom floors of my house) and can highly recommend
The killer feature of Home Assistant vs. my previous Nest setup came when I added door and window sensors, and programmed HA to pause heating/AC whenever doors or windows are open. I no longer turn into my father, who I remember shouting at us kids, "close the door, I'm not paying to air condition the outside!"
I didn’t see one mention of AI related feature or talk they were working on.. that’s the real reason. If you’re not wasting time peddling some AI feature that nobody will ever use or give a second look, you are not onboard the hype train.
Google is an Advertisement company. Everything they do revolves around slurping up the most valuable data to better identify people and be able to identify trends. They’ve become increasingly less and less open as year goes by and they still haven’t found their next big cash cow to offset decline to their current cash cow.
