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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I was listening to a podcast earlier, and they mentioned the fact that their legal liability may, in fact, be limited because of specific wording in most of their contracts.

In other words, they may actually get away with this in the short term. In the long-term, however, a lot of organizations and governments that were hit by this will be reevaluating their reliance on such monolithic tech solutions as crowdstrike, and even Microsoft.

So you may be right, but not for the reasons you think.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and even Microsoft

(x) doubt

They had decades to consider Microsoft a liability. Why start doing something about it now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Literally lol'd. Thanks for that!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Contracts aren’t set in stone. Not only are those contracts modified before they are accepted by both parties, it’s difficult to limit liability when negligence is involved. CS is at worst going to be defending against those, at best defending against people dumping them ahead of schedule against their contracted term length.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh so you can fire QA department, get absolutely destructive update to millions of systems across the globe and this gross negligence doesn't matter because of magic words in a contract? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s not what I said

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Then how else is their legal liability is limited?

They killed off their QA department to chase profits which resulted in a broken product that crippled hundreds of organizations across the globe.

They don't get to just shrug, say oopsie, and point at the contract.