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CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by not2b »

darby_nine wrote: post #143
chatmasta wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.

> It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. If you spend enough time around VC's it becomes difficult to imagine how this doesn't happen more often. Many times companies grow too quickly for a clearly seasoned veteran of the market to get a chance to tak…

I think it's going to shift. Airlines in particular are probably going to decide that they can't afford to take another hit like this, and come up with a way to limit the damage if a software update (even from Microsoft) is broken, and come up with a way to test updates before pushing them to all devices.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by quantified »

darby_nine wrote: post #143
chatmasta wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.

> It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. If you spend enough time around VC's it becomes difficult to imagine how this doesn't happen more often. Many times companies grow too quickly for a clearly seasoned veteran of the market to get a chance to tak…

I think the leaders of Crowdstrike should be considered clearly seasoned veterans. George Kurtz was high up at McAfee. But maybe Cathleen Anderson is a little new to the chief of legal role.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by [deleted] »

tamimio wrote: post #151
arp242 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is it illegal now to rhyme words Trademarks have always applied anything that could reasonably be confused with it. So yes, it is illegal to rhyme trademarks. But trademarks has also long since allowed for parody and other usage that doesn't harm the trademark owner. That's why it's a nonsense request, not because of the rhyming.

> So yes, it is illegal to rhyme trademarks. Do you have any real life examples of that?

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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by fortran77 »

nvy wrote: post #40
mmaunder wrote: post #15

This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…

Cloudflare only stands up to bullies when the CEO feels personally attacked.

More like ״caves in to bullies.”

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by hot_gril »

WheatMillington wrote: post #125
rainsford wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I certainly don't want to claim everyone on Hacker News is a high powered CISO making EDR purchasing decisions for their Fortune 500 company or whatever, but I feel like there are enough people with actual influence who read this site that if I was a security company (or any tech company) I wouldn't want front page stories that make me look petty about getting rightly clowned on after a fuck-up of galactic proportion…

I mean... is THIS going to be the thing to tip you over the edge? Not last month's shenanigans, but THIS?

Also, the name "Crowdstrike" was already worse than the name "Clownstrike"

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by hot_gril »

subpub47 wrote: post #150
hot_gril wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised their stock didn't fall further. Would think user trust is everything for this kind of company. Maybe it goes to show how numb a lot of traditional companies are to computer downtime.

Hedge funds weren't the ones stuck at airports for days waiting for flights.

They probably were, though

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by fsckboy »

cj wrote: post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

a trademark claim is not DMCA, copyright only.

and what is shown on the page is Cloudflare boilerplate about DMCA, not Crowdstrike.

if Crowdstrike did use the DMCA form as a way of getting attention, that still serves as "notice" of the trademark infringement which Clownstrike has graciously acknowledged receipt of

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by runeb »

fxtentacle wrote: post #29
new299 wrote: post #10

I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.

Oh wow, they sued someone who used his last name as a domain name because they feel like their trademark should allow them to prohibit him from using his family name ... And obviously they registered their trademark after he started using his name.

Curiously, Scipio is also arguably one of the most famous family names from Roman Antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by hot_gril »

wanderingmind wrote: post #86

Streisand effect in full play. Many people even in HN might not have known this parody site before, but will now know and actively engage with it. It's a shame people running these multi hundred billion dollar industries, never seem to learn basic unintended consequences of actions in socio-economic dynamics.

Say 1000 HN users visit this site. So what?

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by Nition »

chatmasta wrote: post #116
cj wrote: post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.

Okay, well done, it's hilarious how perfectly this works for both the parent comment and the CrowdStrike bug.
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