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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

I've found it funny how many people think they need to defend windows by saying " this could've happened to Linux too!!"

Okay, sure. Yeah you're right about Linux being just as insecure as windows too 😉

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

Something similar did happen on Linux clients with CrowdStrike installed not too long ago lol

[-] MartianFox@lemmy.ml 48 points 5 months ago

Sounds a bit like its a bad idea to install CrowdStrike regardless of the system 🙃

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

lol yeah that’s a glowing review.

“Oh, we can fuck other shit up too!”

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit

[-] sntx@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

If you're lucky, you only gave to have the software installed - but not running.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

To those many Linux users who took a look at their circumstances and said "I definitely need antivirus software!"

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

CrowdStrike does more than anti-virus and yes enterprise Linux installations need a lot of security controls that average Linux users don't need.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Yeah but 14th Gen Intel CPUs are still failing regardless of your OS.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Proudly an AMD user for 25 years now :)

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Nobody but the most hardcore AMD enthusiasts used Bulldozer. The 2010s was a tough decade for AMD, to say the least. It wasn't until AM5 came out that I finally switched back to Team Red. Got too used to LGA sockets.

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I still don't know why they thought sticking with PGA was a good idea... The amount of processors that were ripped out of their sockets is insane

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

not familiar. Their processors tend to last me ~5 years so it's not like I bought every model available

[-] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I think people are missing the point here. The biggest problem was not that the update was bricking the machines, that could've happened to Linux/macOS/BSD etc. The problem is that the solution to the problem is to MANUALLY access the machine, get into safe mode and type some commands. This is insane. And you should be able to EASILY disable automatic updates for apps like that on Windows Server.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I dunno, I'd say them deploying an update that bricked machines at the scale they did shows they didn't test it very well at smaller scales. They could have even still used their users as beta testers, just needed to do a subset of them first.

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Crowdstrike exists for Linux. Are their reports their update affected Linux servers? I have not read that anywhere.

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