Ira: Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly. — Subium • Bluesky web client
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Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly.
  • Tervell [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Computer auto-immune disorder

    I love software engineering

    anyways, it sure is great to grant kernel-level access to a program so it can better protect you from viruses by, uh... using its kernel-level access to break your entire system?