CrowdStrike Falcon

“Crowdstrike should provide package repositories so admins can pull in updates at their regular cadence.”

“Their Linux stuff has gotten much better but besides the (insanely huge) recent windows debacle”

“blame shifts when a vendor supplies a fix that's insufficiently tested”

“Remember the CrowdStrike BSOD incident in 2024?”

“Crowdstrike is allowed to render half of the world unbootable without repercussions”

“neither vendor involved trusts their users enough for that kind of thing, which turned it into a disaster”

“You are vastly underestimating the amount of spyware like Crapstrike Falcon”

“They caused billions and billions in economic damage due to their incompetence”

“nobody wants to spend time debugging why crowdstrike makes the CI pipeline slow”

“They already have a cloud connected root console to all the machines in entire corporations.”

“endpoint security solutions like CrowdStrike Falcon or Palo Alto Cortex tend to make computers hang whenever tests kick-in”

“Yeah, I have seen this with CrowdStrike-alike management software too. No idea what they put in that shit”

“they somehow spike the CPU just when I am doing something important”

“once you start adding the corporate security tools on top of it (Crowdstrike)”

“Crowdstrike scans make doing anything on the command line a non-starter.”

“Ask serious security folks at serious orgs if they can afford to not run crowdstrike regardless of OS.”

“vaporized billions of customer dollars and stranded people for days”

“CloudStrike was installed with user consent, and still ended up being a fatal rootkit.”

“Crowdstrike served as a useful reminder for who should be allowed in kernel space”

“Corporate Windows == CrowdStrike, Sentinel One, or other US Government in disguise Malware.”

“that update system is the main reason the bug was so dangerous. its built for corporate places who care about compliance more than actual security.”

“shitty single-point-of-failure "endpoint security" software that leads to events like the 2024 Clownstrike incident”

“A few years ago Crowdstrike took down the entire set of corporate computers and everyone still uses Falcon.”

“the entire globe was affected by Crowdstrike which also was caused by a lack of testing on MSFTs part”

“Maybe they could ask CrowdStrike to issue a software update to "fix" this.”

“A big reason why Linux runs better than Windows is the absence of Crowdstrike”

“Crowdstrike and that ilk causing self inflicted Denial of Service attacks on whole economic sectors”

“evade detection on modern EDRs like Trend Micro EDR, Crowdstrike falcon”

“Crowdstrike Falcon is likely the only reason my work M1 Pro machine runs like a dog.”

“The crowdstrike incident taught us that no one is going to review any dependency whatsoever.”

“CrowdStrike was the industry standard and enjoyed a really good track records and reputation”

“Crowdstrike learned that they could screw up on this level and keep their customers”

“I learned that with crowdstrike. It completely changed my understanding of what's important for C-Suite”

“Basically the same failure mode of crowdstrike.”

“The CrowdStrike outages were quite a bit worse though, since it took down the entire computer”

“they were rawdogging configs globally and a bad config made it out there”

“After the CrowdStrike debacle, it's amazing Microsoft isn't coming for kernel-level gaming patches.”

“Convince me CloudStrike learned their lesson and the same issue won't happen again”

“another crowdstrike level issue takes place from a bad update to the ring 0 code”

“Cloudstrike took down lots of the world's network over an avoidable mistake.”