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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.world 23 points 3 months 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.zip 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ClownStrike

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

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, let's not key them get away with it. Clownstrike forever on

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CloudStrike

CrownStrike

ClownStrike

ClownStrife

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago
[–] Hazzia@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, the guy from FFVII

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months 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