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> Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike > https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes...

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If you know anything about how MCAF was organized, or about what GK does at Crowdstrike, the idea that he was in some way involved with MCAF's AV or with the installers/updaters at either company is especially funny.

MCAF was a conglomerate of security products driven by sales of their AV suite, which might as well have been developed on a different planet for all that it mattered to the "security people". Same with SYMC.

He was the CTO, what do you mean he wasn't in any way involved?

People on HN have a very, very strange idea of what a "CTO" does. Kurtz was the CEO of Foundstone when MCAF bought him. Foundstone was not small. The most important skill most CTOs have is identifying themselves as "the CTO" on calls with customer prospects.

I'm trying to imagine anyone on the CrowdStrike board saying, "As a critical infrastructure single-point-of-failure, we gotta fortify ourselves with McAffe culture, from the top, down!"

In their defense, maybe they don't care about the service they claim to provide, and are just looking at it as a money machine black box.

Their stock is down only 9%; barely an event for a tech stock. He didn't even apologize.

What he said at the start of the cnbc interview sounded like an apology to me. The first thing that came to mind was that's great but at the same time might be a problem for a lawsuit IANAL.

Move fast, break things.

And move to the next cushy job paid millions

Is this the part where someone says the rest of us are working too damn hard?

Because on days like today, I do wonder….

The problem isn't working too hard. It's working for others. We should be starting companies and then not selling it to FAANG.

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