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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Maybe they do perform canary deployments and Australia was the canary? Certainly feels like it's disproportionately affecting us down under.

It looks like the whole world is the canary, but they will have the release ready and in top shape for the Mars deployment.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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i've seen photos of the bsod from an affected machine, the error code is `PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA`. here's some helpful takeaways from this incident: 1) mistakes in kernel-level drivers can and will crash the entire os 2) do not write kernel-level drivers 3) do not write kernel-level drivers 4) do not write kernel-level drivers 5) if you really need a kernel-level driver, do not write it in a memory unsafe langua…

Basically all AV either runs as root or uses a kernel driver. I guess the former is preferable

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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IMO, having a mix of servers would help in mitigating issues like that.

Like run stuff on Linux, windows and freebsd servers, so that you have OS redundancy should an issue affect one in particular (kernel or app).

Just like you want more than a single server handling your traffic, you’d want 2 different base for those servers to avoid impacting them both with an update.

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