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ilkkao | 1 year ago

Some government should force them to release a technical postmortem. Feels that they don't do it otherwise.

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educasean|1 year ago

There should be congressional hearings on this. Not just post mortems.

CoastalCoder|1 year ago

Honest question: would you expect Congress to respond in a way that's a true net-positive?

gen3|1 year ago

I don’t think a cybersecurity company can take down half the US and not release a postmortem

spuz|1 year ago

Of course, but we specifically would like to see a _technical_ postmortem that examines what kind of incremental rollout procedures they have and how this update overcame those.

aeyes|1 year ago

Or... you know... This kind of software should be open source or companies using it should at least be able to audit the code themselves.

Supposedly they have all kinds of certifications but not even having basic QA demonstrates that this is all just a smokeshow: https://www.crowdstrike.com/why-crowdstrike/crowdstrike-comp...