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    CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today. (possumpat.io)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Anecdotal, but my spouse was in surgery during the outage and it went fine, so I imagine they take precautions (like probably having a test machine for updates before they install anything on the real one, maybe)

    [–] Blank 37 points 5 months ago

    There were no test rings for this one and it wasn't a user controlled update. It was pushed by CS in a way that couldn't be intercepted/tested/vetted by the consumer unless your device either doesn't have CS installed or isn't on an external network.. or I suppose you could block CS connections at the firewall. 🤷‍♂️

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Depending on the machine, I guess it's likely that those aren't using Windoofs at all. I would be surprised if there were devices in use during surgery who run on that.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

    Any critical devices should be airgapped while in service.

    [–] TheBat 4 points 5 months ago

    I assume these systems were not connected to any network. Same can't be said for the front desk systems though.

    [–] newbeni 3 points 5 months ago

    Mine was in surgery yesterday. I hope yours is doing well.