CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
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Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#2Awesome. Falcon has been widely known (for years) as an utter piece of shit (code wise).
Maybe now ClownStrike will start testing it properly, hopefully thereby fixing the stability and other issues.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#3It's good to remind people that general liability waivers you often find with license agreements have no meaning outside of US jurisdiction if you're doing business in another jurisdiction.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#4time to issue 50€ gift cards!
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#5time to issue 50€ gift cards!
...that "ne fonctionne pas"
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#6Surely, there must be a gigantic number of claimants already taking to their lawyers about how to get compensation? Not just in France but across the planet?
I wonder how this kind of thing is organised, since there's all these jurisdictions.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#7Holy shit (hits the fan).
For sure CrowdStrike will be held accountable in several countries, but I believe that some conclusions need to be drawn also from a customer/user perspective.
- Is it reasonable to grant such privilege access to a piece of software that ultimately is a black box ?
- Is it reasonable to put a Microsoft / Commercial / Closed source OS in critical infrastructure ? If not considered as critical, then “important” infrastructure ?
- Is it reasonable to have more than 70% of the computers/servers that run important infrastructure on the same OS / software ? How about the mitigation of the risks etc…
I sincerely hope that all of this CrowdStrike mayhem will push stakeholders to draw some conclusions and actions.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#8> On 19th July 2019, CrowdStrike pushed an update to their software.
I assume the year was meant to be 2024.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#9I was aware of this being the case when dealing with consumers, but had assumed that because B2B contracts are assumed to be between 2 sophisticated parties that there is little legislative protection that could override the terms of the contract.
My understanding of law is generally UK based, but I'm not aware of legislation what would supersede a contract term limiting liability when the event that created the liability was one of general diligence/competence in carrying out the contract rather than relating to health and safety or some other area that is heavily legislated.
For that reason I'm unconvinced on the article's statement that this isn't just a "French Legal System" thing and that the same kind of judgement might be made in other jurisdictions.
Re: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
#10Awesome. Falcon has been widely known (for years) as an utter piece of shit (code wise). Maybe now ClownStrike will start testing it properly, hopefully thereby fixing the stability and other issues.
Likely not by the people who make the decisions to purchase this. They're usually hearing more from the marketing/sales people than from those actually having to deal with this.
Personally, I don't expect this to make much of a difference, if any.