Sujet : Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Jul 2024, 19:40:05
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David W. Hodgins <
dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote at 20:47 this Friday (GMT):
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:21:04 -0400, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Pardon my ignorance, but what has crowdstrike got to do with Windows?
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They sent out a patch which crashed windows. If you do not have windows,
you would not be affected by it.
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The people sitting in airports running linux on their laptops or android
on their phones might disagree with that statement.
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It affects all systems running windows and crowdstrike, which includes many
microsoft 365 cloud servers. The systems impacted includes many airlines,
government services, financial institutions, etc.
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So you don't even have to own your own computer to be affected by it.
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Regards, Dave Hodgins
As someone who had to fly the day after the crash and /almost missed my
plane/, it definitely was a pretty big thing.
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