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here’s a fun connection: https://x.com/anshelsag/status/1814426186933776846 https://x.com/anshelsag/status/1814426186933776846 “ For those who don't remember,
by swasheck 2y ago
here’s a fun connection:
https://x.com/anshelsag/status/1814426186933776846 https://x.com/anshelsag/status/1814426186933776846
“ For those who don't remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee's CTO at that time is now the CEO of Crowdstrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel.”
so yeah, “leadership” (and that’s a loose term) doesn’t seem supremely concerned about much more than earnings
- valicord 2y agoNot to worry, McAfee CTO was not actually in charge of technology https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-week-reckoning-stock-incident-ed00a543#selection-541.93-541.188:~:text=George%20was%20there%20as%20a%20sales%2Dfacing%20CTO%2C%20not%20in%20charge%20of%20engineering%2C%20technology%2C%20or%20operations https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/ar...
- hinkley 2y agoThe fish rots from the head. Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO??
- cratermoon 2y agoI'm suspicious of CrowdStrike now. If we rip the cover off would we find that it's little more than a reskin of McAfee?
- Natsu 2y agoMcAfee the company or the person? Because John McAfee was pretty out there... https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-tweet-said-his-suicide-would-him-being-whackd-2021-6?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-tweet-said-his-s...
- cratermoon 2y agoMcAfee antivirus the product
- graycat 2y agoThe Internet is able to transmit odors of rotting flesh???? Recently ordered an HP laptop for some light work (not my startup), and when placing the order said don't include McAfee, that "I don't trust them", all just from some odor! CloudStrike runs in kernel mode? No wonder there are problems; kernel mode sounds like more of a threat than a protection. Sooooo, for my Web server(s), McAfee and CloudStrike are issues I get to ignore. Problems avoided and time, money, energy saved!! Simple.
- hinkley 2y agoSometimes it’s good to take a little break after working for a company that ended up not representing your values. I’m on #2 now and it’s been great. It’s like a breakup. “What was I thinking?” Of course if it is representing your values and your values are purely mercenary, it’s really not going to change anything.
- Terr_ 2y ago> a sales-facing CTO Is that what happens when a company has so many Sales Engineers that they become a parallel department from regular Engineering?
- red-iron-pine 2y agothe Sales Engineers are actually engineers. I'm assuming this is more Account Executives and marketing
- Wytwwww 2y agoI assume T stands for [Sales and Marketing]Technology. Which makes perfect sense because these are their core departments that the whole company is dependant on. The product itself is a secondary cost-center, probably less important than even accounting.
- kermatt 2y ago> Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO?? Perhaps of a symptom of the "Everyone is in sales" brain damage so pervasive in companies now.
- aiisjustanif 2y agoI have noticed this too at my company, do we have any web articles or other references to this being a growing trend?
- joshstr 2y agoHave seen region-specific Field CTO roles partner with GTM teams to co-sell with customers. Product and role domain expertise without the organizational technology responsibility.
- red-iron-pine 2y agolol what? a region-specific field CTO is a long way of saying "VP"
- hinkley 2y agoSenior VP! Microsoft prints them like money.
- cratermoon 2y agoMcAfee incident 2010 https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes...
- shmeeed 2y agoNow that's interesting. I wonder why neither here nor there anybody mentions GK's name. Fear of litigation? IMO somebody who managed to collapse the most important infrastructure on earth twice in as many decades - not a small feat, I have to admit - should be known by name to the general public, lest he'll get another chance at it.
- prmoustache 2y agoI haven't seen any important infrastructure on earth collapse, neither in 2010, neither in 2024.
- LadyCailin 2y agoTell that to the people whose surgeries were cancelled because of computer issues.
- prmoustache 2y agoThat was still not on of the most important piece of infrastructure on earth. And outages were not as global as news outlets made it look to be. Crowdstrike may have been ubiquitous in some countries, but almost absent in others. And still, crowdstrike or windows windows aren't global pieces of infrastructure.
- shmeeed 2y agoI admit that was a bit of hyperbole. My point stands regardless.
- rbanffy 2y agoTech needs something like the FTC that can ban someone from working in that area after multiple demonstrations of glaring incompetence. Or evil misdirection of competence.
- ddalex 2y agoBut... But the market forces will take care of that! Right ? Right ?