Technology @lemmy.world ɐɥO @lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4mo ago

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

Videos @lemmy.world Scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4mo ago

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I like when videos are as direct as this guy’s. Just straight to the point. No extra fluff, distracting skits or drama. It’s just him talking straight to the camera about things he’s passionate about.
- Good, but why does it have to be video? Blog post or something I can effin' READ.
  
  Because video creation can be a better source of revenue for creators than a blog post and some people still like to get paid for their expertise?
  
  Nah he's got a soporific voice, so I'm okay with it
  
  I watched it while doing dishes and it was great for me. I like videos for things that don't require my undivided attention. If this were about something like programming I'd want code examples and would need to read to digest it.
Very interesting, especially how they're executing unsigned code via the *.sys files to (presumably) get around waiting for MS to re-sign their driver.
- Yeah this was the main take-away for me, too. You’d expect they’d have ironclad QA when doing shit like this.
Outstanding. You don’t often see content this good.
- It was so good I immediately went to his page and started watching his most viewed videos. This guy rocks
  
  Just keep in mind that some of his content has been proven to be complete bullshit, most notably the NT start menu.
  
  Also, he's been involved in scam scandal in the past. So do take his stuff with a grain of salt.
That answered a lot of questions.

I hope they publicly state how they pushed a bad file, but I doubt it.

Seems like someone really didn't pay attention to what they were doing, and they might have an internal problem with QA.
- As someone that works in QA, yeah, they needed something to catch this. I saw someone mention somewhere without a source that they missed it as all test machines have their full suite of software installed. In that scenario, the computer wasn’t affected. So for QA it seems their labs might need to be more in tune with the user base.
  
  However, the fact that they are able to push this so quickly worldwide seems like a big process issue. I get 0 day issues and that is how they justify it. But deploy to a small subset of customers before going global seems more reasonable.
  
  I heard somewhere that the updated ignored staging settings set. So even if companies had it set to only roll out to a subset of their computers it went everywhere
- Their QA worked better than intended, they had tests fail worldwide and tons of results to work off of hahaha
- they might have an internal problem with QA.
  
  They don't have a lack of quality assurance. They have a lack-of-quality assurance.
Awesome explanation and instant subscribe
This guy is great, I like his channel. Thanks for sharing.

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