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An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the administrator, who is responsible for a fleet of devices, many of which are used within warehouses, told us: "It is very disturbing that a single AV update can take down more machines than a global denial of service attack. I know some businesses that have hundreds of machines down. For me, it was about 25 percent of our PCs and 10 percent of servers."

He isn't alone. An administrator on Reddit said 40 percent of servers were affected, along with 70 percent of client computers stuck in a bootloop, or approximately 1,000 endpoints.

Sadly, for our administrator, things are less than ideal.

Another Redditor posted: "They sent us a patch but it required we boot into safe mode.

"We can't boot into safe mode because our BitLocker keys are stored inside of a service that we can't login to because our AD is down.

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[–] pathief 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know too much about IoT but I wouldn't say linux runs the world in any of the other markets you mentioned.

I would say while technically Android uses a modified linux kernel, you can't put it under the same umbrella.

Either way I don't want to get too much into these technicalities. I was simply trying to say that Linux is king on servers, not really on the market where all this crazyness happened.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Android makes RMS's GNU/Linux language make sense. It is a Linux, but not a GNU/Linux.

Google's attempt to fork Linux failed and now is mainlined so they can maintain as small a set of patches as they can. Once binder was merged, there is no fork anymore.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/android?h=v6.10

Android is basically a build config now.

TVs that aren't Android are probably GNU/Linux. Smart white goods are often Linux. Linux even get used in cars. Some of it under Automotive Grade Linux, but not all. If some random thing has a user interface, find licenses and you can normally see what FOSS went in.

You can do so much with so little, at no cost of licencing or access. Why wouldn't you?

You use things like Yocto and Buildroot to build a image that has nothing but what you need, how you need it.