• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    4 months ago

    funny thing is I, and probably most people, had never even heard that there was something called “CrowdStrike” until Friday of last week

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      1·
      4 months ago

      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

    • expr@programming.dev
      01·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    On Friday, as we were running around the hospital where we work trying to get every computer working again, we were following the work-around to rename the Crowdstrike folder under C:\Windows\system32\drivers to “bad-CrowdStrike”.

    When my coworker was typing the rename command, instead of typing “cro TAB”, he started typing “clo TAB”. He’d ask me why it wasn’t finding it, and I’d point out the typo.

    I started saying, it’s not “CloudStrike”, it’s “CrowdStrike”.

    By the end of the day, we were both a little loopy. I started typing “CloudStrike”, and cursing him out for screwing with my head. By the end of the day I wasn’t sure what it was either.

    CloudStrike

    CrownStrike

    ClownStrike

    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.

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack

        As we’ve discovered, both can be true.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      ClownStrike

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

    • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      4 months ago

      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

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      01·
      4 months ago

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