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Huh, so, not only clueless at security, but also clueless at customer relations. Also, their commercials are stupid, so clueless at marketing.

I find it funny that their name, CrowdStrike, sounds like an anti-personnel reaper drone. Now metaphorically fits.

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50 years from now, unclassified documents reveal that crowdstrike was secretly a CIA controlled business which was operating an offensive botnet created for the anticipated cyberwar, with a peacetime cover story of being security software with automatic updates. Everybody rolls their eyes and asks how anybody ever fell for that when the name openly says what it is.

Probably bullshit, but honestly... Wtf is up with the name?

It's a dumb name and I've already wasted a considerable amount of time looking for an explanation but to no avail. Sounds like something a group of seven year old boys would come up with because it sounded cool.

Why do you think this is BS? It perfectly explains the name and also why something like this is installed so ubiquitously and still installed despite such a massive screw up. Also offensive capabilities need wide deployment just as much as defensive. Cybersecurity and cyberwar is a real thing, and surely DDOS botnets are a core part of that.

Maybe it's controlled by the CIA, or maybe just has a quiet contract with USCYBERCOM and/or ARCCYBER.

I mean, people don't seem that concerned about all of the nuclear missiles and submarines, aircraft carriers, and US military bases everywhere. Computers and the internet are now part of that and have been for quite awhile. If you are invested in this system then you probably want that dominance to continue (otherwise you should probably start learning Chinese). In which case we probably need something like a "crowd strike" widely deployed on the monopoly OS so that we have offensive capabilities.

If you don't like that idea then why use Windows at all? Use Linux at least.

I don't think this is really conspiracy theory territory unless you are in denial that cyberwarfare exists or that the US must participate in it.

It’s plausible but there is no evidence to support it so it remains a theory. A theory concerning a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory.

If it were true, I would hope they'd at least give it an inconspicuous public name. But who knows, I'm almost convinced.

more reasonable than such company having 500+ P/E ratio.

Has any company struck at a crowd as well as them? Their name is perfect.

I've begun referring to them as ClownStrike, given that so far they have seemed to act more like a bunch of circus clowns than an actual knowledgeable entity.

This tone deaf offer just reinforces the impression that they are just a bunch of clowns.

Crowdstrike is such an awful name it's almost funny

Honestly it sounds like some black hat group cranking out malware.

...wait

It sounds like something the CIA does to weddings in Pakistan.

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