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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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Post by afavour »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

> why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS

Because it’s cheaper.

I feel like many in this thread are obsessing over the choice of OS when the actual core question is why, given the insane money we spend on healthcare, are all healthcare systems shitty and underinvested?

A sensible, well constructed system would have fallbacks, no matter if the OS of choice is Windows or Linux.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by ar_lan »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

Odd that you choose Windows to swipe at when this was largely CRWD's problem + a mix of awful due diligence by IT departments.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by mtlynch »

steelframe wrote: post #640

Wow, this hits close to home. Doing a page fault where you can't in the kernel is exactly what I did with my very first patch I submitted after I joined the Microsoft BitLocker team in 2009. I added a check on the driver initialization path and didn't annotate the code as non-paged because frankly I didn't know at the time that the Windows kernel was paged. All my kernel development experience up to that point was wi…

>Doing a page fault where you can't in the kernel is exactly what I did with my very first patch I submitted after I joined the Microsoft BitLocker team in 2009.

Hello from a fellow BitLocker dev from this time! I think I know who this is, but I'm not sure and don't want to say your name if you want it private. Was one of your Win10 features implementing passphrase support for the OS drive? In any case, feel free to reach out and catch up. My contact info is in my profile.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by marcosdumay »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

> yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries.

Yep, this is the problem. The part about Windows is a distraction here.

That bullshit regulation is a much larger security issue than Windows. Incomparably so. If you run it over Linux, you'll get basically the same lack of security.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by Saris »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

Didn't CRWD cause a similar issue with Debian/RHEL a little while ago?

It sounds to me that the problem lies with CRWD and not with whatever OS it's installed on.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by mikewarot »

Why are we still running ANY operating systems based on Ambient Authority, as part of our infrastructure?

DoD shouldn't have given up on MULTICS. That premature optimization is going to sink the US and the Free World.

Personally, I'm still waiting for Genode to be my daily driver.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by Saris »

nimbius wrote: post #669

I work for a diesel truck repair facility and just locked up the doors after a 40 minute day :( . - lifts wont operate. - cant disarm the building alarms. (have been blaring nonstop...) - cranes are all locked in standby/return/err. - laser aligners are all offline. - lathe hardware runs but controllers are all down. - cant email suppliers. - phones are all down. - HVAC is also down for some reason (its getting hot i…

I'm just impressed that the lifts, alarms, cranes, phones, etc all run on Windows somehow.
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