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Judging by the amount of upvotes this post has received, I believe CrowdStrike has made a major PR mistake.
by ronsor 2y ago
Judging by the amount of upvotes this post has received, I believe CrowdStrike has made a major PR mistake.
- nerdponx 2y agoWho cares if it doesn't hurt revenue?
- rainsford 2y agoI certainly don't want to claim everyone on Hacker News is a high powered CISO making EDR purchasing decisions for their Fortune 500 company or whatever, but I feel like there are enough people with actual influence who read this site that if I was a security company (or any tech company) I wouldn't want front page stories that make me look petty about getting rightly clowned on after a fuck-up of galactic proportions.
- WheatMillington 2y agoI mean... is THIS going to be the thing to tip you over the edge? Not last month's shenanigans, but THIS?
- NohatCoder 2y agoThere is the difference that this mistake is much simpler. A lot of business people will understand that having a litigation team without even the most basic Streisand filter is a newbie mistake. How they should have/could have protected themselves against the big breakdown is a lot more complicated, even for tech people.
- subpub47 2y agoSeriously. If the last 20 years of fuckery haven't been enough, nothing short of a nuclear holocaust will make people stop and reconsider.
- hot_gril 2y agoAlso, the name "Crowdstrike" was already worse than the name "Clownstrike"
- NBJack 2y agoStreisand Effect in full force here. This is more than just a PR mistake now. I look forward to it being picked up by major news outlets.
- sophacles 2y agoI believe the brand reputation company made a mistake on behalf of crowdstrike. I doubt anyone at crowdstrike was involved directly.
- account42 2y agoDoes it matter? If they authorized a brand reputation company to harass random third parties without runnit it by them firs then it's still their fault.
- boomboomsubban 2y agoIf years from now CrowdStrike is known as "that company that sends bogus DMCA claims over parodys" then this is a huge success. Even a negative distraction might be good for them right now