The torrents include the normal http download URLs and fetch from them too. Official torrents never die.

I'm fine dismissing things in my field that I've never seen used.

There's nothing controversial about it. Security as a product is an upside down approach to security, and it only really exists on windows.

CrowdStrike is another shitty parasite who's business model can only survive because of the Windows ecosystem.

dd'ing /dev/sdx will copy all IDs

dd'ing /dev/sdx1 will keep UUID but PARTUUID will remain the same on the destination