Yeah, it was an international fuck up. You’re going to get heat, and it’s 100 percent deserved. Go cry in a corner and fuck off into oblivion.
It was called “Y2K if it happened”.
Crowdstrike is a dead company now.
It’s still embedded in a lot of machines.
They whine about this now, after they removed their “shady commentary” towards Microsoft from their website
Reference: https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1816823026291270136
“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.
Hey, they gave some people an Uber Eats coupon
A $10 UberEats voucher that most couldn’t use
When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
So, fraud on to of everything else…? If they do some light treason, it’s a hat trick!
Cry me a half billion dollar river, maybe we can use that money to fix all the damages it did.
No, its good. They sent out $10 gift cards.
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.
It’s okay, they sent out $10 gift cards for Uber Eats to apologize (that they immediately cancelled).
To their customers*. Not to the literally billions of people directly affected by their debacle.
To their partners*. Which I believe are companies that help out with support or something.
imagine fucking uo so bad that uber dosen’t allow you to use their gift cards
No, clowdstrike cancelled the cards after using them, if i understand correctly.
Awww, let’s all feel bad for the rich, shitty company that has shitty quality control.
Hey, they’re trying their hardest. It’s hard because they had the joke build stored right next to the actual build so when they went to push it they clicked the wrong one.
CrowdStrike customers ‘unhappy’ with CrowdStrike
I don’t see the other companies fucking up so badly though.
That one recently with the 2.3 billion record data breach is pretty bad, and we collectively had no way to prevent it since it was through a private company.
You don’t? Shit I see it all the time.
well, no, not at the level of taking down half the air traffic, police, ems, fire services, in the free world, you don’t
Crowdstrike is far from the first company to ship bsod and bootloop bugs, they just happened to have the one that had the widest impact. Windows and it’s ecosystem is buggy shit.
You see CrowdStrike level of bad all the time? Where? What? Who?
Equifax
Ok, and what else? I mean saying it happens all the time and listing one doesn’t really prove the point.
That was super bad, and bad things like this do happen. Just saying it’s all the time seems like it’s really hyperbolic.
damn i haven’t used Windows in over a decade. are y’all ok?
Rofl, like Unix OSes never have problems. Even developers, who are among the most tech savvy users, tend to drag their feet on installing updates unless forced.
i was mostly making a joke about how this absolutely is not a common problem on any platform, not to this degree. and at least when my Arch and Nix systems go down i don’t have anyone to blame but myself. sure, systems have update issues, but a kernel level meltdown that requires a safe mode rescue? that’s literally never happened to me unless it was my fault
Even developers, who are among the most tech savvy users
Doubt
As a sysad, I’ll sign onto this.
Windows users are never OK.
Have you tried turning them off, then turning them on again?
Looks like the difference between the two is that they removed the section calling Microsoft’s security culture inadequate.
I wonder what motivated the change.
Reminds me of this hahaha (~23 seconds in).
Lol perfect
Stahp, you meany!
In similar news, Enron says that people should stop being ambulance chasers by calling them out for corruption, fraud, and illegal activities.
ClownStrike had a massive, glaring issue with their main functionality that is THEIR COMPANY’S ONLY REASON FOR EXISTING that has been correctly attributed to criminally inept architecture decisions, no redundancy, no checks, no safety measures, and no accountability.
If I made the executive decision to design a system without any safety measures that could potentially push unchecked, malicious code to 90% of the computers that the business world runs on, I would be sued into dust. Honestly, if there were any justice in the world, the people at CrowdStrike that designed such a shite system should do actual prison time for their ineptitude.
If I made the executive decision to design a system without any safety measures that could potentially push unchecked, malicious code to 90% of the computers that the business world runs on, I would be sued into dust.
Or made a MS CEO…
/me glares at steve balmer
Somebody should call them a wambulance since their fee-fees got hurt.
I do believe the number is still nine-wah-wah
Sorry but some fields have no margin for error, just take the L and shut up.
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.
Youre a verb now, guys. That’s what happens when you fuck up that badly. Deal with it <3
I wonder if they’ll end up doing a rename / rebrand if “ClownStrike” continues to haunt them (as it should).
If they do, I’m sure the new name will be some focus tested aberration they pay way too much for.
Yes 🤡
