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There is another quite insidious side to things like . Faith in their effectiveness tends to lead to complacency. We've already seen one example of this.

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In a development of sheer brilliance, people can't create tickets from their work issued laptops because they're fucked

If a stay puft marshmallow man puts in an appearance on Fifth today that would round off this month nicely

When Clive Owen's character in The Bourne Identity dies he says "LOOK WHAT THEY MAKE YOU GIVE" and I feel like that every time I get fucked by proprietary software

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> "CrowdStrike: Stop breaches. Drive business".

> Proceeds to breach and halt more businesses' computer infrastructure than any malware in history

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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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.

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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.

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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

I am brewing my morning coffee and get told to hop onto an emergency zoom at 0715, it's been pretty much full throttle since then

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