CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

  • Djtecha
    19·
    2 months ago

    Probably would have been worse if this was on Linux. That’s like 90% of the internet.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      14·
      2 months ago

      Good thing is the kind of people making decisions based on buzzword-bongo filled PR campaigns like Crowdstrike’s are already forcing their IT to use Windows anyway.

      • Djtecha
        3·
        2 months ago

        It was a serious ask to install it from auditors that don’t know what the fuck they are doing. On all ec2 machines for “reasons” I’m sure there are companies out there pushed into doing this because they don’t have people willing to die on those hills.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Oddly, one of CrowdStrike’s selling point is that it provides pretty good EDR for Linux and Mac. If you want crap EDR, which pushes you towards Windows, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the ticket.

    • db2@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      I’m sure the three people that use Linux and Crowdstrike together would have been very upset. 🤣

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yes and no. Linux is inherently more diverse. All the different distros doing things in different ways, sometimes with different components. It’s not as much of a monoculture as Windows. There isn’t a Linux that 90% is.