CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

  • @KazuyaDarklight
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    104 months ago

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

    • peopleproblems
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      44 months 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.