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It is one thing if these updates were in hands of the IT of the companies, but that this company just could automatically push them over is just weird. I accep
by Ekaros 2y ago
It is one thing if these updates were in hands of the IT of the companies, but that this company just could automatically push them over is just weird.
I accept shared responsibility when there is some agreed deployment and such scenarios, but here? Nope it is on CrowdStrike...
- prepend 2y agoIf you hand your car keys to a drunk driver, it’s on both of you. If I give root to a third party, then I’m liable for everything they do with that root.
- zakki 2y agoThe guy was not drunk when the key was given.
- prepend 2y agoI’ve seen crowdstrike’s process. Seems drunk to me.
- anonzzzies 2y agoIf I hand over my car keys to the same cleaning companies every month and all is fine always, except this last time, the cleaner cuts the break lines while cleaning the under side and I die in a crash.
- Barrin92 2y agoThat is a nonsensical comparison. Remote software updates and administration are common professional services that consumers of software cannot execute themselves. The correct comparison would be handing your house keys to a licensed insect exterminator and the guy accidentally poisoning your family. You of course are not liable if a professional supplying you with a service messes up.
- prepend 2y agoCrowdstrike doesn’t test their releases. It’s like paying a licensed insect exterminator that uses random chemicals. They tell you this and you hand over the keys anyways.
- Ekaros 2y agoAn other view. Tesla does over-the-air updated you don't verify. It disables break, you drive car and kill someone due to this. Do you share responsibility? What if this happens while driving?
- MyFedora 2y agoIt was a virus definition update, not a software update. CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again, but a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer?
- thunky 2y ago> CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again I don't consider them capable of preventing something like this from happening again.
- anonzzzies 2y agoNo worries, it will happen again. That’s why they need to be euthanised.
- pjmorris 2y ago> a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer? I think trading, say, small x (15 minutes, an hour?) time, to stage rather than blast might be an acceptable tradeoff given the visible consequences of not doing so.