Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t disagree, but today the blame lies with CrowdStrike, not Windows. As much as I hate defending Windows.

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  • Cube6392@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve seen a weird number of people blaming Microsoft for this today, and an American even weirder number of people making fun of people saying this isn’t on Microsoft

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    • mobius_slip@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microsoft chose to work with these people and accepted their faulty input. How is it not Microsoft’s fault?

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      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s what happens when you put too many eggs in one basket. You see a similar house of cards when you look at package managers in the software dev space. Single point of failure.

        The reality though is that Windows computers not running the CrowdStrike agent were not affected. This one falls on CS, but there is a much larger problem at play. Also, auto-updates are a plague, especially on a kernel level. That’s just insanity.

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      • Yoruio@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you had a Samsung fridge, and you willingly put a bomb in the fridge, would you blame Samsung when your fridge explodes?

        Microsoft gives you the freedom to install software that runs with the same level of privilege as the kernel itself. You’re the one that chose to install defective software, and then give it kernel level permissions. You put a bomb in your computer and now you’re blaming Microsoft after the bomb exploded.

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      • Cube6392@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most of who got hit though was people who contracted with crowd strike directly though. Its not like Microsoft pushed crowdstrike onto people.

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      • andrew@radiation.party ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because Microsoft isn’t responsible for every program that runs on their OS.

        CrowdStrike is an EDR that enterprises choose to install. The bug was caused by a dodgy content bundle update, which is something that’s meant to be 100% safe but evidently they found and triggered a bug.

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      • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not every enterprise runs crowdstrike, so it’s not Microsoft’s fault. I was having trouble finding out what happened because our computers were working normally, lol. The XKCD comic tipped me off.

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