• JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Our industry is built on trust,” Sentonas said

    And instead of following that statement with an apology to all the companies and people they royally fucked in the ass with their shitty business practices, they instead whined about other people pointing out what a massive, colossal, and completely preventable fuckup this was.

    Good going sealing my resolve to never use crowdstrike.

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    3 months ago

    I am not in the knows about IT security at all, but isn’t fucking up part of any security company? You can make shitty comments all you want but who says your company isn’t the next one to fuck up?

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      3 months ago

      Not wrong, but they fucked up due to incompetence, not just some random preventable accident.

      From the technical details I’ve seen, just having a basic testing process/environment should have easily prevented this. That should be the bare minimum.

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    3 months ago

    I think that’s just called “living down an epic fuck up” but you know it’s their company and they can cry if they want to.

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    3 months ago

    Maybe you shouldn’t have taken down half the world’s airlines.

    People do tend to notice shit like that.

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    3 months ago

    I appreciated the RiskyBiz episode with the Sentinel one guys where they go over all the ways this could have been prevented if they did real testing

    Crowdstrike absolutely deserves the shit they’re getting.

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      3 months ago

      Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch

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          Their ftrace hooks caused all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound

          We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed

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              3 months ago

              We’re still using them on machines where performance doesn’t matter

              On build machines, they’re on a special VLAN and don’t have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror

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    3 months ago

    Making millions, failing, causing global damage, then crying when people comment is quite nice and not at all hypocritical.

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      3 months ago

      Nah, this one has a margin of error. It’s just that “take down a large percentage of all computers in the world simultaneously” is quite a bit outside of that margin for a security software.

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    3 months ago

    They lambasted Microsoft in their marketing materials but when others do it to them it’s no fair? lol

    Compare the live page with the archive. Looks like they softened their language after the disaster

  • reginald_crunklebottom_III@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Crowdstrike didn’t just fuck up, they killed people. I personally had to postpone a blood test, but mine wasn’t critical and I’m alive to complain. Not everyone is.