• Logh@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Funny how CrowdStrike already sounds like some malware’s name.

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      2 months ago

      Not too surprising if the people making malware, and the people making the security software are basically the same people, just with slightly different business models.

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        Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

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        Reminds me of the tyre store that spreads tacks on the road 100m away from their store in the oncoming lanes.

        People get a flat, and oh what do you know! A tyre store! What a lucky coincidence.

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    The answer is obviously to require all users to change their passwords and make them stronger. 26 minimum characters; two capitals, two numbers, two special characters, cannot include ‘_’, ‘b’ or the number ‘8’, and most include Pi to the 6th place.

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      Sorry, I don’t understand. Do you mean there have to be 6 digits of Pi in there, or the sixth character must be π? I’m down either way.

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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      Great! Now when I brute force the login, I can tell my program to not waste time trying ‘_’, ‘b’ and ‘8’ and add Pi to the 6th place in every password, along with 2 capitals, 2 numbers and 2 other special characters.

      Furthermore, I don’t need to check passwords with less than 26 characters.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Who says it was accidental?

    Netflix knew they were going to move from DVD rentals to streaming over the Internet. It is right in their name.

    CrowdStrike knew they were eventually going to _________. It is right in their name.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    This is, in a lot of ways, impressive. This is CrowdStrike going full “Hold my beer!” about people talking about what bad production deploy fuckups they made.