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> The truth may be mundane but a hack is as reasonable a theory as “oops we pushed boot loop code to world+dog”. No it's not. There are many signs that point t
by saagarjha 2y ago
> The truth may be mundane but a hack is as reasonable a theory as “oops we pushed boot loop code to world+dog”.
No it's not. There are many signs that point to this being a mistake. There are very few that point to it being a hack. You can't just go "oh it being a hack is one of the options therefore it is also something worth considering".
- azinman2 2y agoEspecially because if it was crowdstrike wouldn’t be apologizing and accepting blame.
- owl57 2y agoWhy? They are in a very specific business and have more incentive to cover up successful attacks than most other companies. And while I'm 99% for Hanlon's razor here, I don't see a reason to be sure it wasn't even a completely successful DoS attack.
- hdhshdhshdjd 2y ago“Our employee pushed bad code by accident” is VASTLY better for them than “we didn’t secure the infra that pushes updates to millions of machines”.
- Huggernaut 2y agoLook there are two options on the table so it's 50/50. Ipso facto.
- bunabhucan 2y agoI believe the flying spaghetti monster touched the file with His invisible noodly appendage so now it's a three way split.
- hdhshdhshdjd 2y agoI didn’t say it was 50/50, but an accurate enumeration of options does include a failed attempt at a hack. I fail to see why this is so difficult to understand.