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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Summary of the recent crowdstrike report: š§µhttps://infosec.exchange/@munin/112916974811882522
Munin wonders if the weird writing style of the report might be because crowdstrike used an LLM to generate a summary of several source documents, which would be funny-yet-depressing if true.
The actual causes of the incident probably wonāt suprise anyoneā¦ ādidnāt bounds-check, didnāt test parser on bad data, didnāt stage rolloutsā in order of should-have-done-this-first-ness.
Minor, but itās CrowdStrike not cloudstrike
Oops, Iāve been trying to avoid calling it āclownstrikeā, and didnāt quite manage to fix that initial syllable.
Itās a really weird name for a product. A crowd strike sounds like a terrorist tactic, not something that brings āsecurityā to mind.
Tom Clancyās CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction Iād accidentally buy from the thrift store
thereās a whole strain of extreme terribleness in the wider infosec industry ito naming and references, itās so goddamn bad
the most recently visible form of this is post-heartbleed how lots of researchers/groups now fall over themselves to give vuln publications Branding (logo, catchy name, etc), but also all kinds of other things that they constantly mix some terminology soup up
I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve
Completely agree, thatās why I nit, since āCloudStrikeā sounds like an actual name for an actual product and I will not have that stand!
AWS probably has pre-filled patent documents ready for CloudStrike, just waiting on some acquihire or popular open source thing they can product-leech
People are so trained to shout at Cloudflare for protecting the neo-nazi sites that this is every understandable.
Image description
Simpsons cartoon, Marge shouts āCloudflare, no!ā to her left. Bart, with the Cloudflare logo on his head walks in from the right, āWhat?ā. Marge apologizes to Bart, āSorry force of habitā. Marge shouts āCrowdstrike, no!ā.
while thatās also a problem, doesnāt really seem thatās what happened here
I have seen a lot of people call it cloudstrike and not a lot of other variants, so I assumed it was due to crowdstrike and cloudflare being so similar.
fair ānuff :)