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CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Docus@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Being up to date is the entire point

No, it isn’t. The point is to keep systems safe and operational. Blindly rolling out untested updates is not a good strategy for that. I have seen entire systems shut down due to false alerts from updated antivirus software. Luckily only test environments, before these updates were rolled out to production. It does not take much to test updates like this before rolling them out to your entire organisation.