• NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    2 years 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
      45·
      2 years 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
        21·
        2 years 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
      29·
      2 years ago

      ClownStrike

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

    • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 years 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

    • hue2hri19@lemmy.sdf.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      Yes. I’m no security expert, but ebpf always seemed a bit weird to me. But in the end how much different is it from kernel drivers?

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      5·
      2 years ago

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