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CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago (25 children)

Imagine this happening during open heart surgery and all the monitors go blue!

[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Good lord I would hope critical surgical computers like that aren't networked externally... Somehow I'm guessing I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~Critical surgery computers may also be running under Windows LTSC, so they might not get the CrowdStrike patch. Maybe...~~

Edit: So the issue is apparently caused by CrowdStrike. So, unless the surgery computers also use CrowdStrike then it would be fine. Unless, of course, if they use CrowdStrike on surgery computers...

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