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.

ClownStrike

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

CloudStrike

CrownStrike

ClownStrike

ClownStrife

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

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

CrowdStricken