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  • You assume that businesses operate in good faith. That they thoroughly review contracts to ensure that they are fair and in the best interests of all its employees. Do you really think Greg, a VP of Cloud Solutions that makes 500k a year, who gets his IT advice on the golf course by AWS, Microsoft, & Oracle reps. Who gets wined & dined almost weekly by these reps, and a speaking spot at re:Invent, and believes Gartner when it says spending $5 million a month on cloud hosting and $90/TB on Egress traffic is normal, has the company’s best interests in mind?

    I’ve seen companies pay millions for things they never used, or that weren’t ever provided by the vendor. You go to your managers, and say… “hey, why are we paying for this?” and suddenly you’re the bad guy. I’d love for you to prove me wrong. I’ve found pieces of progress before, within isolated teams when a manager wanted to actually accomplish something. It never lasts though… its like being an ice cube in a glass full of warm water.


  • Companies were not raped by CrowdStrike. They were raped by their own ineptitude.

    No where have I seen evidence where these updates were disabled and still got pushed. I’m not saying it is impossible, but unlikely if they followed any common sense and best practices. Usually, you’d be monitoring traffic and asking yourself why it is still checking for updates despite being disabled before deploying it to your entire IT infrastructure.

    I see a lot of bad faith arguments here against CrowdStrike. I agree that they messed up, but it pales in comparison in my book to how messed up these companies are for not doing any basic planning around IT infrastructure & automation to be able to recover quickly.


  • Yes it can, but a kernel update is a completely different scenario, and managed individually by companies as part of their upgrades. It is usually tested and rolled out incrementally.

    Furthermore, Linux doesn’t blue screen. I know some scenarios where Linux has issues, but I can count on one finger the amount of times I’ve had an update cause issues booting… and that was because I was using some newer encryption settings as part of systemd.

    However, it would take all my fingers & toes, and then some, to count the number of blue screens I’ve gotten with Windows… and I don’t think I’m alone in that regard.