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I'm sure Crowdstrike will not take kindly to their employees spilling the beans here, just saying... Especially a very high-profile issue like this that is likely to end up in the courts.

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I wish Crowdstrike's employees wouldn't take kindly to Crowdstrike bringing down hospitals and killing innocents.

Morality and ethics fly out the window the minute cash enters the equation. It's very easy to appear to altruism and write heroic posts on X, it's another to apply them in practice.

I'm sure they don't. But it's clear this was not intentional. It was a tragic mistake that's all.

They didn't even bother to test this update. They don't have canary deployments. It's clear that their QA and development culture is complete garbage. That is not "just a mistake".

And it’s a publicly traded company that went down 10% on Friday due to these events.

I hope no one is dumb enough to spill the beans just for some karma. Especially when you don’t know what the official findings are yet.

Just do it, what do you have to lose, that company is toast anyway

I'd be surprised if they were toast. Big companies can fuck up with impunity - just look at Boeing. They can take a bit of an insurance hit, chalk it up to the cost of doing business, and pass the cost back to their customers in the long run.

I'm amazed it only went down 10%. Some of my stocks go down that much because an analyst at some no name Canadian bank lowers their price target by 5%.

It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right? If answering the OP is illegal, then no employee of any listed company can ever say something bad about it, which sounds too restrictive?

> It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right?

Sounds like a great swing trade to take a long position in CRWD for retail.

I've taken a position in CRWD and I'm retail, but take that as the opposite of investment advice. Worked well in the past, though.

Wonder how many are polishing their resumes right now.

I guess it would depend how honest they are in their communication. Presumably if they outright lied, it would give enough incentive for someone to create an throwaway account via a VPN from a browser and machine instance they never used to say something like “hell, no, that’s not what happened”

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