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I understand your concerns about telemetry and privacy, but really what we should be talking about is my bonus

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Install this kill remote kill switch in your systems, it's for your own good, it'll never be used

I think the Crowdstrike CEO would like to help, but he's totally like driving his racing car this weekend so too bad

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@shortridge We had to do enormous work evangelizing this product. It's just been set fire to.

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okay people, stop with the 👉🥺👈 but crwd is just an itty babby don’t be meeean

they are a grown ass commercial software vendor who has known, for years, by design, that they effectively deliver a rootkit into enterprise systems and, often, critical infrastructure

again, if you have the energy to shame OSS contributors for their mistakes, but make excuses for large commercial vendors: maybe what you seek is punching down, not making the software ecosystem better hachyderm.io/@shortridge/11281

I just want to play with FOSS and help people, why the fuck am I dealing with this shit

I think for some organizations and for some parts of organizations the sheer monetary cost of this is going to be greater than a compromise, the very thing it's supposed to prevent against.

@shortridge I have to say I did not know they were so widespread

@shortridge Their updater does it all, it pulls changes automatically outside of the OS methods. They broke it and fixed the update very quickly, but alas the damage was done on many machines as it is such a low level tool

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Okay computer, compile this as if we're running it in production :)

:mycomputer: ok, seems to go well

Alright, then push it and run it in production!

:mycomputer: literally everything is on fire

A couple of months ago Crowdstrike had a sensor conflict with a RHEL kernel update, took days to fix, totally borked the hosts too. That was not as big but it shows the hazards of these things.

@lightweight Crowdstrike EPDR still on all our Linux stuff, minor miracle they didn't fuck that

@SeventhMagpie This will run all weekend. There's no fast way to fix it.

@lain The return journey was going to be tested in prod, it's fine

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boeing insanely happy that so many news stories are happening that nobody remembers that they still can't get the astronauts back that they sent up on the starliner
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