CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines wonโ€™t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

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[โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Windows didn't do anything, this was an update applied by the Crowdstrike agent.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago

    That's the impressive part of all this. Microsoft didn't do it. CloudStrike did it.

    Microsoft left something in a state that allowed CloudStrike to fuck up enough to brick systems.

    It's why we spend a lot of time reviewing security analysis of our own software - if there's a way to fuck everything up, it better not because we enabled it to get fucked.

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