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  • Guest_UsertoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s ComputersEnglish
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    Two quick points, given the massive impact of this eveny it is clear to say many critical systems run windows. Meaning them being windows doesn’t make them any less “actual computers”.

    Also, the OS in this event is irrelevant. They could have botched an update to their Linux version and crashes all the Linux boxes leaving windows untouched. This was not a result of an issue of any OS but a bad update.




  • They absolutely exploited unintended functionality. If this was intended, they wouldn’t have added rate limiting and locked down the api after. It was clear to say this was certainly not an intended use of the api.

    In a video game for example, if there is a an item that caused excessive lagging just by placing the item. Placing a lot of them with the intent to lag the game would be an exploit. They only used items sanctioned by the game, but for unintended reasons and they would likely be banned for exploitation.