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crowdStrikeIsAVerbNow (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

On Friday, as we were running around the hospital where we work trying to get every computer working again, we were following the work-around to rename the Crowdstrike folder under C:\Windows\system32\drivers to "bad-CrowdStrike".

When my coworker was typing the rename command, instead of typing "cro TAB", he started typing "clo TAB". He'd ask me why it wasn't finding it, and I'd point out the typo.

I started saying, it's not "CloudStrike", it's "CrowdStrike".

By the end of the day, we were both a little loopy. I started typing "CloudStrike", and cursing him out for screwing with my head. By the end of the day I wasn't sure what it was either.

CloudStrike

CrownStrike

ClownStrike

It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.

When I first heard about what was going on, I assumed that "CrowdStrike" was not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack where they used systems they'd previously hacked and had them all do the same thing at once to another target.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack

As we've discovered, both can be true.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ClownStrike

A fitting rename after such a pathetic and catastrophic failure, that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, let's not key them get away with it. Clownstrike forever on

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CloudStrike

CrownStrike

ClownStrike

ClownStrife

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

CloudStrife

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, the guy from FFVII

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm usually a big stickler for making sure I'm saying something right, but that name was tongue twistering me from the first time I tried to say it out loud. And we don't even use them and weren't hit in any way lol

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

funny thing is I, and probably most people, had never even heard that there was something called "CrowdStrike" until Friday of last week

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Formula One fan. The Mercedes team are sponsored by them. You see their logo every time you see an on board shot of the cars.

I had no idea until this weekend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Over/Under on the amount of time before that logo gets removed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

End of season, at least, or whenever the livery/sponsorship contract runs out. Mercedes isn’t liable to care too much - it’s just a livery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well you say that but their pit wall on Friday said otherwise Mercedes F1 pit wall with blue screens of death

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I dunno how blind I have to be to miss this for all this time, but the air vents they have on the pit wall are the same air vents you get on a Mercedes-Benz.

It makes perfect sense, but it's rather amusing 😂

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Oh, if you worked at a company that uses them (which is a lot of companies), you'd definitely be familiar with them as they hog up a ton of fucking CPU/disk. I basically had an entire CPU core dedicated to running their bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I knew of falcond as the service that makes my work mac run slow.

Unfortunately, having a mac meant i didn't get friday off unlike most of the rest of the company

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

When I heard "CrowdStrike" took down operating systems everywhere, I thought it was the name of a virus or a group of hackers. I'm not the only one hearing an inherent villainy in that name, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Same for me with Solar Winds, Equifax, SVB and Ashley Madison.

Weird to think that some kind of major catastrophe in the future could again be caused by some company that exists right now, but am unaware of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Something I heard about recently is that it's unnervingly common for the stock prices of unknown but really important companies like these to shoot up following an outage because it reveals to stock investors how mich of a monopoly it has in an area.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you not in the US? Equifax is a credit bureau and if you've never heard of them, you never needed credit or you're not from the US.

The other three, I've only heard of Ashley Madison because they had a very aggressive ad campaign before ad blockers became ubiquitous. One could say it was ads like theirs that made ad blocking a requirement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm not in the US. The first time I heard about them was when they shit the bed.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

They struck the whole crowd for sure

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

an operating system that allows third-party ring 0 access

Linux with eBPF:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes. I'm no security expert, but ebpf always seemed a bit weird to me. But in the end how much different is it from kernel drivers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Shush, this is an opportunity for people to dump on Microsoft, if you take it from them they'll turn on you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CrowdStroke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

CrowdStricken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Now that's a good code word!

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