CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for widespread outage impacting airlines, banks and more

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[mjroop]

This company is DOA…worst failure a cyber security company could unleash. More to this story…not a coincidence.

[icecoldcaller]

He’s deeply sorry, I feel better for my flight.

[cathmires]

Too much power for one company. This is a global threat.

[annaolson]

"We're deeply sorry, " that should make everything OK, despite the $1000's he's costed companies and individuals. I'm sure he'll still get his 7 figure bonus this year, all tax free.

[silverwolf]

Protip: If you hire a company that pushes updates into your critical systems. Make sure that company has an extensive QA department with procedures in place so this does not happen. This company is clearly not it.

[baumkuchen]

Some dumbass dev: "Have a nice weekend!"
git push -f
* closes laptop, goes home.

[justreview]

Is there any testing department or you laid off them for more profit. This is what happens companies only want profits but not quality.

[groovetube]

Your fired and you are not getting a golden parachute

[donaldaltman]

What's 'UP', with his hair, is my question!? 🤔...😂

[hawaiiguykailua]

So planned, so just the start, remember the "fire sale"? PS, no way this made it past the thousands of beta testers over the last month. Not A CHANCE, they live for this stuff, pointing out your incompetence. So it could only be well planned, intentional and well executed😉

[Shoshana-xhhc]

Just as thousands of people wanted to get home from Milwaukee…

[codalina]

This is why you don't fire your QA and testing team for more profit

[CRAPPIEfishin]

What’s up with that hair. “Land of the Lost”

[DailyCodingStudio]

This was a software bug? You never tested the code? Are you kidding?
Who approved the change? What test cases were followed in testing phase? Share with us. If Microsoft and Crowdstike is cooking up story, this will come out some day and remaining 2% trust will go away.

[frankm]

Excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one.

[dnooney]

He should be deeply sorry for that haircut. Something About Mary vibes…

[jpslcut]

So the stock market went WITH MY and me unable to do anything. Who will reimburse me? I have an idea. Why don't you test the software updates before you release them to the world?