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I had never heard of CrowdStrike before. The name seems to imply that it's a military cybersecurity weapon, such as for a massive DDOS on command.
by ilaksh 2y ago
I had never heard of CrowdStrike before. The name seems to imply that it's a military cybersecurity weapon, such as for a massive DDOS on command.
- remram 2y agoRight? From the name you'd assume it's either some sort of missile, or a famous OpenSSL vulnerability (heartbleed, specter, etc). I'd feel weird picking a protective app called "crowdstrike".
- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y agomicrosoft and apple enter the chat
- zdragnar 2y agoNames aren't really all that accurate in tech anyway. You don't go to Amazon for rainforest information. You don't go to Google for information about big numbers. You don't go to Uber for an Aryan vibe. You don't go to Apple for fruit. You don't open Windows to let in a cool breeze. You don't need a trap for your wireless mice. Monster isn't going to eat you. Jeeves isn't actually a person you can ask, and knows less about buttling than you'd expect. FireEye is competition to crowdstrike, not an STD. You get used to it after awhile.
- mdp2021 2y agoThe argument was that heavy metal rock bands tend to avoid names like "Sweet Strawberry Puddings for Cozy Cabins".
- Insanity 2y agoYup indeed. Trying to think of counterexamples for the fun of it. Nirvana (“heaven”) before the grunge band became synonymous with it?
- rented_mule 2y agoNot all perfect examples (e.g., some aren't metal, but they all have their own edge to them)... Kittie, Lamb of God, Dream Theater, Green Jelly, Heart, Ministry.
- mharig 2y agoWe Butter the Bread with Butter
- mdp2021 2y ago(Well, as you probably know "nirvana" is not exactly a perspective that many ordinary people welcome, and it is in fact very far from some concepts of "heaven"; "Nirvana" for the eponymous band meant "induced bliss"; the band was far from fixated as e.g. Cobain found documented inspiration in the Damned ("Come as You Are" is apparently a citation of "Life Goes On") and the latter just lightly enjoyed the eerie spirit uncommittedly - a spinoff was Captain Sensible solo projects with "Wot"... Now back to the topic.)
- playingalong 2y agoBrainstorming... Greenland not being that green. Flaming Saddles and all the names of restaurants serving some kind of spicy food, whose names emphasize the side effects.
- wil421 2y agoMicrosoft makes much better sense, right? Or an Apple I cant even eat.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoTbf Windows has windows in it It's not called Microsoft Ads 2020
- collingreen 2y agoMicrosoft DOES make sense though - tiny software... I dont know if gibson took it or coined it in neuromancer but it at least makes sense as a name for a thing. This isn't the same as "random noun" for a company name.
- david38 2y agoNah, it’s Microcomputer Software. Software for tiny computers. At the time, desktops were considered microcomputers compared to the workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, etc
- ThrowawayB7 2y agoMakes perfect sense if you know your history: _soft_ware for _micro_computers, because in the era where Microsoft was founded, the word "computer" was associated with room or building sized mainframes. Minicomputers were the size of a rack or two and microcomputers / home computers were ones that fit on top of a desk.
- stevekemp 2y agoAt least their old name made sense, "micro-soft" - software for microcomputers.
- Daviey 2y agoDue to the reputational damage they've experienced they are currently in the process of rebranding to the new name, CrowdStroke.
- nothercastle 2y agoI’m sure they will rebrand
- jdougan 2y agoI heard it was going to be ClownStrike.
- StanislavPetrov 2y agoTheir big claim to (public, non-technical crowd) fame before this was their role in "auditing" the DNC servers. It was their widely-disseminated claim that the DNC servers were hacked by Russians, who subsequently gave the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Later, under oath, in 2017, CrowdStrike's president of services and chief security officer Shawn Henry admitted to the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that they not only had no evidence that the data was hacked by Russians, but that they had no evidence that it was exfiltrated at all (rather than leaked), but rather that it was an assumption. Unfortunately this admission wasn't declassified until the Mueller report was publicly released and many people had already been fooled, and (in my eyes) did little to establish Crowdstrike as a reliable or trustworthy organization. Some notable quotes from Shawn Henry regarding this from that hearing: >"There are times when we can see data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. But in this case it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left." >"There’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There's circumstantial evidence but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated." >"There is circumstantial evidence that that data was exfiltrated off the network. … We didn't have a sensor in place that saw data leave. We said that the data left based on the circumstantial evidence. That was the conclusion that we made." >"Sir, I was just trying to be factually accurate, that we didn't see the data leave, but we believe it left, based on what we saw." >Asked directly if he could "unequivocally say" whether "it was or was not exfiltrated out of DNC," Henry told the committee: "I can't say based on that." https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/shawn_henry_testimony_dec_5_2017.pdf https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/shawn_henry_tes...
- willcipriano 2y agoI bought shares on the dip, they have carried too much water for the security state to be allowed to fail.
- StanislavPetrov 2y agoSad but true. Same reason Boeing is probably still due for a steady rise.