I’ve seen a lot of stupid comments about this outage but this by far the dumbest.
Software development is not a zero-sum game. The people who work on building detection logic aren’t the same people who build the release management cycle or test deployments.
There is a lot to shit on CrowdStrike for in this debacle. “If they hadn’t been working on AI they could have avoided this” isn’t part of it.
Source: Am infosec. Company uses CrowdStrike. Was impacted today. Follow this stuff very closely.
Are you under the impression ai generated or pushed the update?
No, I’m under the impression that they’re focusing on AI instead of what they should be focusing on.
They would have been focusing on “AI” since before chatgpt/genAI.
This is a place where you actually do want machine learning to categorize threats. This is a different ai than chatgpt ai. We just call everything AI now cus why not.
But yea, they fucked up.
Cyber security software has been using AI (aka ML) for years. Blaming AI for this outage is stupid.
I think the point (maybe I’m reading what I want) but it’s the substitution of human supervision for ML based decision-making and over-relying in ambiguous automation that are barely understood because most of them are black boxes to customers.
Or I don’t know, AI bad I guess ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Nah the ML is generally just looking at trends in traffic on a network, and blocking traffic if it doesn’t fit the trends. It’s essential to use ML over humans for this because of the volume of traffic and the response speeds needed for cyber attacks. It’s simply not possible for a human to vet all that traffic fast enough.
Top spot for " Boomer who doesn’t know tech" goes to this guy.
