Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn …

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    323·
    4 months ago

    I don’t hear about billions of Linux or Mac computers going down all at the same time. I’m hearing that windows allows a simple text file change to bring down all of them at the same time.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Even if you write assembly code straight out like a total hacker, it’s still a text file. Literally jump 0x12345 is text. And if it’s just a few kilobits long, then it’s a simple text file yes. Got anything else to ad? Specially if the file actually doesn’t work and the system made to run it “windows” is such shit that every copy of it got halted.

        • MetaCubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Yes and at the end of the day it’s all just binary getting dumped into a cache and processed by the CPU. The point is that the intent of the file matters and while they do both hold text, the intent, purpose, and handling of the kernel mode/ring 0 driver is much different than a “simple text file”

          So different in fact, that as another user pointed out, it has happened to Linux too

      • Entropywins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        They are most likely uninformed with a very strong opinion based on how they feel…while I’d like to call them a moron I’ve done this exact thing and like to think I’m not a moron.