CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks

reuters.com

8 points·JumpCrisscross··9 comments

I'd love to see an in-depth post mortem by the devs but from what I've read in the past couple of days, they won't be with the company and the company will probably use all legal means to prevent that from happening.

Can their legal means beat a senate inquiry?

If the subpoenas can get issued before any pre-configured expiry deletes the evidence…

So good luck. I worked at a place with a 6mo expiration policy across the board. Perfectly legal way to avoid getting your emails in the news.

NAL, but typically a litigant would send a "preservation" or "spoilation" letter apprising them of forthcoming litigation and demanding they preserve related evidence. I would not be surprised if Crowdstrike has already received some from this incident.

Is Meta still a company?

“[it] apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks”

You don’t say

This may be one of the more useless articles ever written.

"Apparently the large number of drops of water coming from the clouds were a result of rainfall"

So many parties in this made stupid mistakes: - Crowdstrike for not doing proper QA. - Customers for not doing some form of canary testing - Microsoft for building an OS that is incapable of returning to a last-known-good in all situations

From the outside this incident appears to have highlighted a number of internal and external Crowdstrike skipped checks.

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