politics, crowdstrike
Today, Friday 2024-07-19, an evil hacker group that goes by the name #crowdstrike attacked and brought down various critical world-wide infrastructure - including major airlines, financial institutions, telecom, and healthcare; potentially causing multiple fatalities.
Yes I'm aware that some people disagree with the policy of "using the same words" or "being equal". If you have a better idea that will help improve cybersecurity, please let me know.
@foxxy please tell me this is satire because this post and its reply has a LOT of misinformation.
Crowdstrike is a securities provider for some of the largest corporations. There are no signs at the moment that this was a malicious attack, and this wasn't a ransomware attack.
All of this is conjecture and founded upon speculation and not factual information.
Thank you @ioletsgo , I really appreciate you.
I'm simply using the same terminology as other sources that use these terms to describe something opposite but similar to what I'm referring to. Any time there's a written piece about open source software potentially being bad, or supply chain issues, or OSS being unreliable, or closed source proprietary software being "safe". I'm positing that the whole system is malicious. I did put in an advance notice that I was "using the same words".
@foxxy please don't spread misinformation about a complicated topic for the sake of dumb pettiness.
@ioletsgo
Thanks I appreciate the concern. It is a complicated topic but it's actually not misinformation. It's my belief that spreading awareness about malicious systems is important and helps improve the quality of life.
I know I'm not qualified to do something to protect all the computer systems, but hopefully with more awareness, others will rise to action. At the very least I have to not advocate for installing dubious backdoors with known bad incentives into critical infrastructure.
@foxxy crowdstrike isn't a malicious entity though.
politics, crowdstrike
@ioletsgo At the very least, the system that enables this behavior is malicious.
As long as you've also gone around and replied to everyone that has said that proprietary should be inherently trusted because it's a trade secret / powered by NDAs / not burdened by regulation / backed by share holders / costs a lot of money / guaranteed / were told "we promise", then I'll accept it.
re: politics, crowdstrike
Some IT staff report having their servers locked out by #ransomware, likely related to the #crowdstrike attack.
(Yes, it is very important to always encrypt your device's data, but please make sure you have management policies in place to store your backup keys. But everything said above is still true.)