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It was a virus definition update, not a software update. CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again, but a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer?

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> a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer?

I think trading, say, small x (15 minutes, an hour?) time, to stage rather than blast might be an acceptable tradeoff given the visible consequences of not doing so.

> CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again

I don't consider them capable of preventing something like this from happening again.

No worries, it will happen again. That’s why they need to be euthanised.

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