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CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

No, unless its an embedded OS and it has no external ports.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You can absolutely start writing garbage to bios and brick the mobo firmware.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

and the one I was replying to was asking about an OS being bricked, not about the bios or firmware.

AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

[–] phuntis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

it's not costly or time consuming maybe in the past but now you plug in a memory stick and hit a button then wait 5 minutes for a light to stop flashing

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