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Everyone else in this thread is missing that crowdstrike level bug would have taken down the company in the past.

I had a friend practically scream at his C level management after the crowdstrike bug that it should be ripped out because it was making the company less safe. They were deaf to all arguments. Why? Insurance mandated crowdstrike. Still. Even now.

This isnt really about software it is about a concentration of market power in a small number of companies. These companies can let the quality of their products go to shit and still dominate.

A piece of garbage like crowdstrike or microsoft teams still wouldnt be tolerated as a startup's product but tech behemoths can increasingly get away with it.

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The other way to look at Crowdstrike is that it prevented probably thousands of attacks by ransomware and other adversaries. Then it had a bug which meant you had to visit your computer and manually reboot it, with no data loss or leakage.

Would you rather have to deal with criminals who have invaded your systems wanting ransoms with no guarantee they will restore the data, or not leak private information, or would you rather have to reboot your machines with a complete understanding of what happened and how?

>A piece of garbage like crowdstrike or microsoft teams still wouldnt be tolerated in a startup's product but tech behemoths get away with it.

Agree, but it's always been this way. Oracle, everything IBM, Workday, everything Salesforce, Windows before XP.

Most software is its own little monopoly. Yes, you could ditch Teams for Zoom but is it really the same?

It's not like buying a sedan where there are literally 20+ identical options in the market that can be ranked by hard metrics such as mileage and reliability.

>Most software is its own little monopoly. Yes, you could ditch Teams for Zoom but is it really the same?

I worked for a company where people did that en masse because it was genuinely better. Microsoft then complained to their assets within the company who promptly banned zoom "for security reasons". IT then remote uninstalled it from everybody's workstation.

That's paid software eviscerating the competition, which was free and better.

A month later teams was hit with 3 really bad zero days and nobody said a damn thing.

So, more secure, too.

> They were deaf to all arguments. Why? Insurance mandated crowdstrike. Still. Even now.

Your comment got me wondering if MBA's in say, risk management or underwriting also share some of the blame?

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