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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Have you never worked in corporate IT or something? Of course we should blame Crowdstrike, that way we don't get a sev 1 on our scorecard.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's funny that corporate IT will be one of the groups getting the blame in this case, despite it being in most cases not their decision that a company lacks a separate test and production environment. The executives that decided that usually gets off scot free.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

Hahah, no doubt, while popping in and out of the outage call repeating the phrases "can I get an update?", " Is there an ETA on recovery?" and "We need to get this back online"