[neverminder]

Wouldn't want to be the guy who pushed this particular commit. It's ironic that the company that is supposed to prevent this sort of thing causes the biggest worldwide outage ever. Crowdstrike is finished. Let's hope this will result in at least a small increase in desktop Linux market share.

[yuvadam]

Just a small reminder that's it's never "the guy" and always "the process", or lack thereof.

[SirMaster]

So it's "the guy" who's job was to make and enforce "the process", got it.

[neverminder]

Yeah, but heads will have to roll for this one, the world will be calling for blood, so who better if not "the guy"?

[BrentOzar]

> Crowdstrike is finished

Unlikely, just as Solarwinds wasn't finished when they distributed malware that got government agencies hacked. You underestimate the slow turning radius of giant company purchasing departments.

[bhouston]

As I posted elsewhere, the SolarWinds stock has never recovered from its high before the hack. And it is on a downward trend.

[ciabattabread]

Crowdstrike is finished? Ha!

SolarWinds got the US government hacked by the Russians and they still exist.

[janice1999]

Interestingly SolarWinds is headquartered in Austin and CrowdStrike recently moved there too.

[bhouston]

The SolarWinds stock has never recovered from its high before the hack. And it is on a downward trend.

[taneliv]

Enterprise Linuxes also employ Crowdstrike or similar "security" products as mandatory part of their IT deployments. Often (always?) this is due to companies wanting certification for their secure processes, in order to sell to government or large corporations that require them.

[neverminder]

Crowdstrike in their official statement said "Linux and MacOS not affected". Are there any reports stating otherwise?

[galdosdi]

Why the fuck didn't MSFT just do blue/green canarying? No update should be rolled out to a billion devices at once until it's baked in a million devices for a bit, and that only after baking in 10,000 devices for a bit.

[BenjiWiebe]

CrowdStrike is not MSFT. This also affected Linux installations with CrowdStrike installed, from what I've read.

[martopix]

> Crowdstrike is finished

Boeing is still there... we'll see

[tbgilson]

Yes indeed. That's kind of how Chernobyl happened.

[hulitu]

> Crowdstrike is finished.

We thought about Microsoft the same way, some 15 years ago. /s