After two major outages in as many weeks — including the CrowdStrike crash — alarm bells are ringing about the world's overreliance on Microsoft. Andrew Chan...
It has a little bit to do with the OS. Windows does not have the same sandboxing capability for modules that Linux provides. The fact that the sensor needs to run in ring 0 is a problem, and eBPF at least mitigates much of the issue in Linux. But I think you meant that CrowdStrike is by no means blameless, and I agree - they have a long history of shitty implementations, and rightly deserve to be the focus of our anger.
I know it has nothing to do with macos. I agree it’s the QA piece. I heard upper managements theme was “two feet on the gas”. Also the CEO was the CTO of McAfee when they had a similar issue back in 2010 if I’m not mistaken. 🙃
And if Crowdstrike had competent management who valued a proper QA department, the overall failure wouldn’t have happened at all.
This has nothing to do with OS. This is a result of corporate fuckery.
It has a little bit to do with the OS. Windows does not have the same sandboxing capability for modules that Linux provides. The fact that the sensor needs to run in ring 0 is a problem, and eBPF at least mitigates much of the issue in Linux. But I think you meant that CrowdStrike is by no means blameless, and I agree - they have a long history of shitty implementations, and rightly deserve to be the focus of our anger.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/
IIRC those were the non-eBPF versions of the sensor.
I know it has nothing to do with macos. I agree it’s the QA piece. I heard upper managements theme was “two feet on the gas”. Also the CEO was the CTO of McAfee when they had a similar issue back in 2010 if I’m not mistaken. 🙃