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Would you elaborate on that?
The issue was caused by a software that is designed to collect data from the computer and send it to a centralised location. It's intrusive enough that it needs to run at kernel level. The issue was caused because it auto-updates itself. The recent update was borked causing the auto-update attempt to send it into a bootloop.
It's a software that employers install on their employees' work computers. I don't know exactly how this kind of spying is helpful to the employer. But if it just run in the userspace this particular problem wouldn't have happened.
Funfact, we actually opt in to the feature to stay a version behind on updates, specifically to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Turns out that is a fucking lie because we still got this update.
Any chance of suing them or something like that?
Would be nice to see some extra blowback from this too.
They pissed off enough of the powers that be (read: corporations) that I would be surprised if they made it through this intact. I wouldn't be surprised if they crashed and got acquired by one of the tech giants. Which I hope is the case, friendly reminder that crowdstrike was one of the key sources of all the russiagate bullshit.
Thanks. That's helpful.