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.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    517·
    5 months ago

    Except not make an OS so shitty and vulnerable that it needs millions of hours and billions of dollars pumped into keeping it from being hacked in a split second. But yes nothing besides that one minor thing.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      233·
      5 months ago

      Companies use the same software on Linux and Mac systems, and it’s a kernel module there as well; this could have happened to any OS that companies are using it on, it just happened to happen on Windows.

      Giving kernel access to outside software is always a risk; these companies chose to take that risk

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        313·
        5 months ago

        They make plastic pocket protectors too but that doesn’t mean we need to use them. Sounds you missed my point

    • Someone64@sh.itjust.works
      154·
      5 months ago

      The reason Windows gets attacked so much to begin with is because of its market share, not necessarily how vulnerable it is. If you want to cast as wide a net as possible while wasting as little effort as possible, why the fuck would you target the lesser used OSes? In the same vein, why would you invest so much in protecting OSes that aren’t as big of targets as Windows? Your comment sounds as ill informed as those people that think Macs can’t get viruses.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        89·
        5 months ago

        It’s well known that windows is chocked full of security issues and ALWAYS has been. Never once implied other OSes are perfect, just better. You sound ill informed yourself, and simping for a corporation