• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      The issue was caused by a software that is designed to collect data from the computer and send it to a centralised location. It's intrusive enough that it needs to run at kernel level. The issue was caused because it auto-updates itself. The recent update was borked causing the auto-update attempt to send it into a bootloop.

      It's a software that employers install on their employees' work computers. I don't know exactly how this kind of spying is helpful to the employer. But if it just run in the userspace this particular problem wouldn't have happened.

      • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        Funfact, we actually opt in to the feature to stay a version behind on updates, specifically to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Turns out that is a fucking lie because we still got this update.

          • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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            4 months ago

            They pissed off enough of the powers that be (read: corporations) that I would be surprised if they made it through this intact. I wouldn't be surprised if they crashed and got acquired by one of the tech giants. Which I hope is the case, friendly reminder that crowdstrike was one of the key sources of all the russiagate bullshit.