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Re: Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

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They might just be encrypted with a customer-specific key. That wouldn't surprise me.

No the hashes are the same. There are different files that can differ between customers. 9ca565965198cf1a5073ce974c5826d14aa3ac3cf574b3d2d2e7f80624b9ed90 = C-00000291-00000000-00000033.sys = https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9ca565965198cf1a5073ce97... 61486fe1aa690260bd846245f0fac204b26f41ed83f66e962cb548837f3ceb98 = C-00000291-00000000-00000057.sys = https://www.virustotal.com/gui/search/61486fe1aa690260bd8462...

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Re: Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

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if one of the people i manage is not up to the task the fault is mine. I've hired them. I should setup a system of hard gained trust and automation to avoid or at least minimize them fucking up. When fuckups happen, they are my fuckups. Critical systems don't survive only on trust, obviously. If I don't setup the teams and the systems properly, my bosses will also take the blame for having put me in that position. I'…

Right. In one sense, what we're talking about is different ideas on how companies / teams work. There's a wonderful book called "Reinventing Organizations" by Laloux that I recommend to basically everyone. In the book, the authors lay out a series of different organisational structures which have been invented and used throughout the ages. The book talks about early tribes where the big man tells everyone what to do…

Thank you for the reading suggestion!

Re: Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

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Why the fuck didn't MSFT just do blue/green canarying? No update should be rolled out to a billion devices at once until it's baked in a million devices for a bit, and that only after baking in 10,000 devices for a bit.

CrowdStrike is not MSFT. This also affected Linux installations with CrowdStrike installed, from what I've read.

Thanks, sorry, I commented before getting my facts in order. Comment still stands as applied to CrowdStrike.
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