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51 points

I’ve found it funny how many people think they need to defend windows by saying " this could’ve happened to Linux too!!"

Okay, sure. Yeah you’re right about Linux being just as insecure as windows too 😉

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53 points

Something similar did happen on Linux clients with CrowdStrike installed not too long ago lol

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48 points

Sounds a bit like its a bad idea to install CrowdStrike regardless of the system 🙃

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18 points

lol yeah that’s a glowing review.

“Oh, we can fuck other shit up too!”

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3 points

checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit

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8 points

To those many Linux users who took a look at their circumstances and said “I definitely need antivirus software!”

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22 points

CrowdStrike does more than anti-virus and yes enterprise Linux installations need a lot of security controls that average Linux users don’t need.

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13 points

I think people are missing the point here. The biggest problem was not that the update was bricking the machines, that could’ve happened to Linux/macOS/BSD etc. The problem is that the solution to the problem is to MANUALLY access the machine, get into safe mode and type some commands. This is insane. And you should be able to EASILY disable automatic updates for apps like that on Windows Server.

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7 points

I dunno, I’d say them deploying an update that bricked machines at the scale they did shows they didn’t test it very well at smaller scales. They could have even still used their users as beta testers, just needed to do a subset of them first.

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2 points

Crowdstrike exists for Linux. Are their reports their update affected Linux servers? I have not read that anywhere.

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13 points

Yeah but 14th Gen Intel CPUs are still failing regardless of your OS.

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8 points

Proudly an AMD user for 25 years now :)

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3 points

Even bulldozer?

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5 points

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