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They didn’t just “ship a bug”, they broke millions of computers worldwide because their scareware injects itself into the Windows kernel.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
The crowdstrike event might be so infamous event that it might be taught for atleast some decades for sure maybe even in permanence.
- dylan604 1y ago
  That's a heck of a optimistic outlook for the future. Experience has taught me to be much more pessimistic about the future, especially when it comes to avoiding the repeating of the past
  - DaSHacka 1y ago
    I mean, we still cover the THERAC-25 incident in university CS courses
otterley 1y ago
Unfortunately until Windows changes, the best way for them to serve customers is to continue to inject kernel code. (This is no longer needed or even permitted with macOS.) They did screw up operationally, but one problem made the other much more likely and dangerous.
- baq 1y ago
  Why limit yourself to Windows? My enterprise-issued mac is very noticeably slower and suffers from weird crashes and reboot-fixes-things issues that my own personal mac has never had.
  - otterley 1y ago
    Because Windows was the sole OS impacted by last year's incident.
    - yangff 1y ago
      they also screwed up Linux before they did that on windows.. The problem here is they are a spyware that pushes whatever code they want to your (precisely your company) devices without test etc. It's just a matter of time for it to blow up.
      - otterley 1y ago
        The Linux kernel panic issue was different in many ways (in this case, the bug was in the Linux kernel used by a particular RHEL release), but your point that it needed further testing before pushing it out to production is still valid. https://christiantaillon.medium.com/no-need-to-panic-the-linux-kernel-panic-crowdstrike-issue-f3ada3386303 https://christiantaillon.medium.com/no-need-to-panic-the-lin...
- mapontosevenths 1y ago
  > They did screw up The word you're looking for is negligence. The lives of human beings were at stake and they YOLO'd it all by not performing a phased rollout.
mapontosevenths 1y ago
They probably killed people. I missed a medical appointment due to the outage. Mine wasn't life threatening. For some, it was.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

The crowdstrike event might be so infamous event that it might be taught for atleast some decades for sure maybe even in permanence.

dylan604 1y ago
That's a heck of a optimistic outlook for the future. Experience has taught me to be much more pessimistic about the future, especially when it comes to avoiding the repeating of the past
- DaSHacka 1y ago
  I mean, we still cover the THERAC-25 incident in university CS courses

otterley 1y ago

Unfortunately until Windows changes, the best way for them to serve customers is to continue to inject kernel code. (This is no longer needed or even permitted with macOS.) They did screw up operationally, but one problem made the other much more likely and dangerous.

baq 1y ago
Why limit yourself to Windows? My enterprise-issued mac is very noticeably slower and suffers from weird crashes and reboot-fixes-things issues that my own personal mac has never had.
- otterley 1y ago
  Because Windows was the sole OS impacted by last year's incident.
  - yangff 1y ago
    they also screwed up Linux before they did that on windows.. The problem here is they are a spyware that pushes whatever code they want to your (precisely your company) devices without test etc. It's just a matter of time for it to blow up.
    - otterley 1y ago
      The Linux kernel panic issue was different in many ways (in this case, the bug was in the Linux kernel used by a particular RHEL release), but your point that it needed further testing before pushing it out to production is still valid. https://christiantaillon.medium.com/no-need-to-panic-the-linux-kernel-panic-crowdstrike-issue-f3ada3386303 https://christiantaillon.medium.com/no-need-to-panic-the-lin...
mapontosevenths 1y ago
> They did screw up The word you're looking for is negligence. The lives of human beings were at stake and they YOLO'd it all by not performing a phased rollout.

mapontosevenths 1y ago

They probably killed people. I missed a medical appointment due to the outage. Mine wasn't life threatening. For some, it was.