https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/
Link to the Tech Alrt from crowdstrike’s support form: https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19
Someone of Wallstreetbets started shorting their stock yesterday lmao https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1e6ms9z/crowdstrike_is_not_worth_83_billion_dollars/
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Richard Stallman gets proven right once again. The West will rather collapse than ever consider a sustainable software model.
I’m even more GNUpilled right now.
Linux gang stays winning
Is this an issue I’m too Linux-y to understand?
I used to be way more evangelical about Linux and a few years ago a bash/terminal exploit was discovered after going unnoticed for like a decade that could give someone superuser privileges to a system and my brother and his friend tried giving me shit over it and I was like “yeah, it’s already patched. Like not even an issue. Meanwhile malware and security holes on Windows is just another Tuesday, but whatever.”
It’s more GNU than Linux. With proprietary software, people are forced to compete to come up with the quickest solution rather than the most correct. Inevitably under a capitalist system, few large conglomerates dominate the field of technology and bend society to its will leading to a space where only venture capitalist grifters can thrive while the public suffers.
A monoculture is more vulnerable to being wiped out by a single disease. so in the end, like all problems caused by capitalism, will cause the whole system to collapse.
It’s not being an “evangelical” which is the lazy excuse that capitalist bootlickers give to any socialist project. It’s about being for the workers.
I’m in the process of switching, thank goodness.
This has nothing to do with the operating system that was being run and everything g to do with enterprise using a third party monitoring application that was not tested properly before an update was pushed by the vendor
Definitely not nothing to do with windows, but you’re right that that’s the main problem.
ironically crowdstrike did a similar thing with their linux product a couple months ago but it wasn’t a big deal because 1) nobody uses that shit on linux 2) linux isn’t as homogenous of a target as windows, so only certain kernels from certain distros were affected.
It probably doesn’t have much to do with a side by side comparison of the current OS architectures, but there is a lot of historical inertia behind the current state of the Linux and Windows ecosystems. Windows originated as a graphical shell for DOS, which was mainly a single-user, single-process system. Linux originated as a multi-user, multi-process system since inception. Throughout a long period of Windows’s history, these habits lingered among third party developers (developers developers developers) out of convenience or simple necessity for backwards compatibility with other third party components. Even when the NT kernel became the universal Windows kernel with Windows XP, a lot of third party software development adhered to the assumption of a single user machine where the user runs everything with admin privileges. They simply ported their old shit over from (DOS-based) Windows 98/ME and did the bare minimum to make it run on NT. This only reinforced users to run everything as admin, because all sorts of things would break otherwise (admittedly, mostly games and retail shit, but a lot of third-rate enterprise software and harebrained in-house solutions also carried these assumptions forward).
This has all been pretty much remedied by year 2024, but a lot of these virus scanners and “security” apps still bear the marks of history, running in ring 0 as kernel modules and root-kits to one-up the end-user who is running everything as an admin. The fact that we’re even doing third-party security apps in 2024 is the real failure. This stuff should be (and is, to a large degree) built directly into the OS. This stuff only exists because redundant middle-managers throughout corporate America cannot resist being conned by vendors.
Yup well put
Because they outsourced and fired their QA, allegedly.
This happened in 2010 also https://archive.is/seLwaLMAO it was the same guys back then too! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mcafee-departures-idUSTRE79H63Y20111018/
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Rip I just got the “we’re fucked” text from my employer. Looks like America’s least favorite company is internally screwed.
Must be hard working for the CIA
Just the NSA. Dental plan is better.
how long is this gonna last before it’s fixed and back to normal?
Death to America
There is no automated solution so every device has to be fixed manually. Plus with Bitlocker it becomes more difficult if the keys are stored on a server that can’t start anymore. It’ll be a pain and will probably last a month or two because of how big the scale is.
every device has to be fixed manually
Depends, if you have a PXE boot setup, then you can use that to fix the machines. But I most people will be out of luck and do the manual route like you said
fuck yes. hell yes dude, i love the market
Death to America
As someone who worked this last night:
World got ClownStriked.
I don’t know what Crowdstrike is, but at this point I’m too afraid to ask.
This is just the classic case of the real malware being the antimalware all this time.
The more I read about it the worse it becomes holy shit. The economic hit would be wild.
lmao the only reason I’m able to get work done is because I’m working from home today. My entire school is SOL otherwise.
hey guys just started my job at crowdstrike and pushed a little update, gonna relax the rest of the day
Imagine using windows for mission critical applications
Imagine revealing you’ve never worked for a company whose IT infrastructure is older than you
The nice thing about FORTRAN is there’s hardly anyone left who speaks the deep magic so network attacks aren’t much of a concern.
linux isn’t new, at all
And the companies with that type of infrastructure are still like 50/50 on DOS not windows
These issues are not in windows 98 PCs, these issues are almost entirely on up to date hardware.
The fact that your infrastructure is old is not an excuse and something to brag about
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Lol this is not the “something finally happened” that I hoped to wake up to, but I’ll take it.
A world-wide disruption like this does create plenty of options for things to happen.
Here’s hoping for some mischief!
but we know nothing will happen
Wonder if we can get a bank run going?
here for the chaosSouthwest showing the world how it’s done:
Retvrn
