Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "CrowdStrike IT outage continues to cause global disruption | BBC News" video.

  1. because companies wise enough to use Linux are sufficiently competent not to buy into the snake oil, so the crowdstrike user base on Linux is tiny.
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  2. Microsoft is 100% guilty. A proper OS must roll back on detecting a boot loop.
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  3. ​ @boskee system restore is a joke. A proper roll back is an immutable root fs with overlay filesystem.on top. Then a rollback is simply removing all the overlays past the last good boot point.
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  4. ​ @kleec495 with the natural diversity of the Linux distros it is much less of a problem. Also, IT departments running Linux are already competent enough to not use the antivirus snake oil at all, so it is much less likely to happen.
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  5.  @kriskalpa  it is clear that this is 100% Microsoft fault.
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  6. Indeed, snake oil salesmen managed to scam way more people than you'd expect
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  7. It must be an immutable.system
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  8. ​ @potluckfishing  you're incompetent, aren't you? None of the crap you mentioned is even needed.
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  9. ​ @ExodusX13 RHEL got a proper roll back, when configured correctly. Though those who can deploy it correctly simply won't let any crowdstrike snake oil anywhere close to their systems anyway.
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  10.  @kleec495  a company that believes that Windows is in any way a "business requirement" for anything anywhere near a critical infrastructure and not a desktop of a receptionist is a criminally incompetent company, period. A company that bought into any of the "cybersecurity" snake oil, especially this worthless crowdstrike, is a criminally incompetent company.
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  11.  @amyskippy  if they had a proper rollback procedure this would not have happened, hence the 100%. If you deploy an OS, it is your responsibility to make it resilient to 3rd party software errors, drivers included.
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  12.  @amyskippy  it is trivial and proper Linux distros do it out of the box: an immutable root fs, with overlays only for any updates. It is essentially an append-only storage, so rollback is guaranteed, no matter how much damage is done to fs. Of course, a direct access to the underlying block device should never be allowed, which is, again, trivial in a corporate environment with a network boot.
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  13.  @amyskippy  one would have thought cryptolockers are enough of a threat to force everyone to use append-only storage. But no, they are still reckless...
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  14.  @bitcoin-wh5vb  I guess it is a Stockholm syndrome of the Windows IT "specialists" and Windows-oriented developers.
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  15. who asked for your ignorant opinion, gammon?
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