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Does anyone else feel a little sympathy for CrowdStrike? They pushed out something they should not have. OK. That is bad. But a couple days on and the bulk of t
by sandworm101 2y ago
Does anyone else feel a little sympathy for CrowdStrike? They pushed out something they should not have. OK. That is bad. But a couple days on and the bulk of the difficulties seem to be from how windows handled the situation: The BSODs, the boot loops, the inability to recover from a basic fault. I feel that if this did happen in a linux environment (it could) that it would be easier to isolate and boot systems into some sort of temporary mode. Linux would communicate and offer options. The windows-specific trend of just abandoning all hope, giving up and throwing the BSOD at the user ... CrowdStrike didn't create that.
- betaby 2y agoWhy there should be any sympathy for them? Their business is shitty boss-ware. I care about boss-ware makers as much as I care about tobacco companies.
- timtom123 2y agoNo? They did this on Linux too. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...
- disruptiveink 2y agoWhat do you mean? They wrote the kernel driver. With great power comes great responsability. If you're writing a kernel driver that is deployed throughout a great portion of Fortune 500, with the money that that entails, then you should definitely be able to afford to pay people to write defensive code and have proper pipelines in place.
- sandworm101 2y agoAnd there is only the one kernel. No easy rollback option at boot, a previous version to at least get the system online.