I don't even like this company, but the utterly brainless attempts at "sick dunks" via unstated implication are just awful epistemology and beneath intelligent people. Make a substantive point or don't say anything.
The number of bugs/failures is not a meaningful metric, it's the significance of that failure that matters, and in the case of CrowdStrike that single failure was such a catastrophe that any claims they make should be scrutinized.
The fact that we can not scrutinize their claim in this instance since the details are not public makes this allegation very weak and worth being very skeptical over.
https://christiantaillon.medium.com/no-need-to-panic-the-lin...
The word you're looking for is negligence. The lives of human beings were at stake and they YOLO'd it all by not performing a phased rollout.
I missed a medical appointment due to the outage. Mine wasn't life threatening. For some, it was.
In some circles, it’s considered that they were not completely honest actors, to say the least. My understanding is that the FBI didn’t directly seize the DNC’s physical servers; instead, they relied on CrowdStrike’s forensic images and reports. This is unusual and they could have withhold evidence that didn’t fit “the narrative”, being that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
To ELI5 what could be implied here, they will say whatever the intelligence agencies and the deep state want them to say, creating negative coverage about Chinese technology is kind of their MO. Allegedly.
But as I’m reading the other comments, they have quite a lot of notorious f ups, so I could be wrong.
I would still love to see some sort of source for the allegations. It sort of smells like the evidence didn't come out the way some people hoped so they blamed the investigators. Thats fair, if there's evidence to support the stance.
Subsequently Trump called for the Russians to attack the Democrats. They did. They also appear to have targeted the American people with disinfo which could have been aided by the data supplied to them. Ultimately Trump's position towards Russia has evolved into an uncharacteristically and uniquely favorable position for an American president.
If he isn't an actual asset he certainly at least collaborated and communicated with them as a fellow traveler with similar aims at odds with the actual geopolitical aims of America as a nation.
Maybe there's been reform, but since we live in the era of enshittification, assuming they're still a fucking mess is probably safe...