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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:53:05 -0400
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On 7/23/2024 3:56 AM, Charles Packer wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> xkcd: CrowdStrike
>>      https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
>>
>> Make the best of bad times.
>>
>> Explained at:
>>      https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
>>
>> Lynn
> 
> Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing?
> My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident.

Fortunately, I retired from Raytheon Cybersecurity last December,
but even then I wasn't on end-point security.

I personally wasn't affected, but on Saturday, attended my wife's
50th high school reunion. It was mentioned that several expected
people weren't there, due to the cancellation of flights.

That was the only impact I experienced. The SW involved isn't really
for individual users, so it was mostly on corporate machines.

Had I still been working, it could have got interesting. I was
100% remote since 2019, so IT would have had challenges getting to
my corporate machine.

It was interesting following the developments on the /r/sysadmin
subreddit, in real time. Many overtime hours were earned, and many
weekends ruined.

pt