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CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] Darkassassin07 89 points 6 months ago (11 children)

As if the borked update wasn't bad enough, it was also forced on users that explicitly said not to install it.

CrowdStrike’s channel file updates were pushed to computers regardless of any settings meant to prevent such automatic updates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that's just terrorism then

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Terrorism would require a political angle.

This is malicious incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

One can argue that there is a very niche political angle to this - teaching Windows users the fear of God, so that they'd see the error of their ways. But it works in our favor, so let's not concentrate attention on it.

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