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CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today. (possumpat.io)
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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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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Companies use the same software on Linux and Mac systems, and it's a kernel module there as well; this could have happened to any OS that companies are using it on, it just happened to happen on Windows.

Giving kernel access to outside software is always a risk; these companies chose to take that risk