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> the Pwnie Awards also go to people who get attacked, which is something that e.g. civil engineers certainly don't get blamed for To be clear, this incident w
by yowzadave 2y ago
> the Pwnie Awards also go to people who get attacked, which is something that e.g. civil engineers certainly don't get blamed for
To be clear, this incident was not due to an attack—CrowdStrike just shot themselves in the foot with a bad update.
- edanm 2y agoTrue, but the reason CrowdStrike has code running in a manner that is capable of bringing down the system, and the reason they push out updates all the time, is because they are in general combating attackers. If there were no attacks, you wouldn't need such defensive measures, meaning the likelihood of a mistake causing this kind of damage would be almost nothing.