And keep in mind, the falcon sensor exists for Linux. All those big companies largely use it.
Essentially we just got lucky that their buggy patch only affected the windows version of the sensor in a showstopping way. Could have been all major OS.
I don’t think the Linux culture is very similar to the windows culture. At least for me personally, I wouldn’t use crowdstrike and let them install whatever they want into my environment.
Maybe it’s just me.
It’s not your machine, your choice of distro, or your choice of specific packages to use or not use. It’s a work tool you get handed as part of a job. So whether CrowdStrike runs on it or not is not your decision and you aren’t allowed (and usually not capable) to change that.
That’s an entirely different situation from one where you get a PC to do with as you please and set up yourself, or a private machine.
Plus we’re mostly talking endpoint devices for non-technical users with many of these difficult-to-fix devices as techs have to drive out to them. The users expect a tool, and they get a tool. A Linux would be customized and utterly locked down, and part of that would be the endpoint protection software.
We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.
You’re actually confirming their point about culture though. The fact that you couldn’t stop them doesn’t mean that it also happened to everybody else: some management may have listened. Linux users abhor adding weird shit to their OS, Windows users do it all the time.
I bet you could bring it up with them now…
Essentially no one has crowdstrike on their personal machines. Not Windows users, Mac users, or Linux users. So it’s corporate/large organization culture that matters. And they absolutely use it.
Are you an admin in a corporate data center? If not, you’re not in the target audience for that product.
Yup. And I think that says more about the corporate culture than the company that caters to them.
Yep I know
Then the internet would blame it all on Linux.
However, the recovery process would be much faster. The Linux kernel would try to load the kernel module and if it fails it would skip it.
This already happens any time the domain name servers go down: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/20/cloudflare-outage-knocks-popular-services-offline/
Don’t forget that ftp.cdrom.com , the biggest server on the Internet at it’s peak, was running on FreeBSD.
I have no idea what the hell that is…
But Netflix runs on some BSD too
It’s where you would download your anime and Quake 2 installer twenty years ago.
Interesting!
Freebsd, as does whatsapp and PlayStation
There’s a free blue screen of death? All of these people paying for Windows for no reason /s
Doubtful. By far, most servers responsible for Internet traffic are not running crowdstrike software.
This incident was a bunch of fortune 500 companies caught with their pants down.
Who do you think runs those servers? What do you think those companies run on their Linux servers?
Those companies aren’t “the Internet.” They’re products connected to the Internet.
The OP argument is like saying the Internet is dead because Netflix is down.
A lot of people would say the internet was down if a large number of those products weren’t available. Also companies like Google do own parts of the physical Internet infrastructure.
If all of the parts of the internet that the average person finds useful goes down, then it matters little that technically “the internet” is not down. If it can’t be useful then it is as good as “down”.
2038 is the next big thing to hit older *nix based OS. It will be Y2K all over again.
Maybe on my 32-bit ARM server with ancient kernel it will. Any 64-bit machine is immune.
…unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.
The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.
It’ll be 911 times 1000.
The end is nigh, I tell you!
