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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:53 +0100 (BST)
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In article <v7du6n$30rop$1@dont-email.me>, jmccue@hairball.jmcunx.com
(John McCue) wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but what has crowdstrike got to do with 
> > Windows?
> 
> My understanding, Microsoft "outsourced" somekind of
> security function to croudstrike, so just about all
> corporate Windows systems may have this binary from
> croudstrike.

Not so. Crowdstrike is a commercial product, and in no way compulsory. At
my employer, Windows servers have it, and some got hit, but Windows
laptops and desktops do not, and were unaffected. 

John