Woke up to the news the news that Crowd Strike killed bunch of IT infrastructure. We weren't using that POS software in our company so the work day was not bad for me. I was talking to a co-worker about this news. I mentioned 'Crowd Strike is going go broke over this'. He said, 'No they won't.' "Won't they get sued into the ground for this." "Microsoft hasn't been sued over its bad updates."
I do a quick search to see if I could prove him wrong. All I could find is individuals taking Microsoft to court for forcing updates but no corporations have. It appears the software EULAs are so legally airtight that if a software update costs your company millions or billions...tough shit and suck it up.
Crowd Strike did several bad IT practices this update.
- Deploying on a friday (lol)
- not testing the update deployment (the update itself could've been fine but the update server might have corrupted the file)
- not doing a staged update
- the software probably makes it difficult or impossible to defer updates
As well Microsoft is still Microsofting with its driver BSODs.
I'm doubtful that either Crowd Strike or Microsoft will be held to account for the billions of dollars lost and millions of people that had their day ruined over this.
Basically, software companies are like vaccine companies and they are immune to legal liability.
Have a good weekend, unless you're in IT.
I wrote about this awhile ago after seeing the signs myself but sheer incompetence is what has me shitting bricks these days more than anything deliberate people can do with globalism and we're seeing this with Boeing, DEI hiring and other silly crap. The reason being is it's not just that these companies are all too big to fail as others have mentioned it's that it's basically being setup by design that it's illegal to fire incompetent people now.
On the plus side, this is going to give plenty of reason to make the switch to Linux since Microsoft have shown they're completely untrustworthy because there's no telling what they'll fuck up now.
Edit: None of this bothers me half as much as the inevitable comments from obviously tech illiterate youtubers and normies who are going to have zero idea of the implications of what all this entails.
I need a drink lol
Keep in mind, he swore that Frodo and Sam were gay lovers and sperged out when told that he was wrong and stupid for thinking so. That's my Lethn baseline and its all downhill from there.
It's funny to me how you guys get so offended by that. Of all the Lethn moments this is the one you're fixated on? Huh.