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Sweettea71's avatar

Makes you wonder if the CrowdStrike mess was a planned test run for something bigger. Feels like we are living in a movie.

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Michelle Rollinger's avatar

I absolutely think it was a test for what’s to come. We all need to flag this event. I keep trying to tell everyone I know that life is going to be very difficult in the next few months into next year.

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Susan Banks's avatar

I think the opposite. I’m so sure Trump has everything done for us and as soon as the country is told who is the President and who has been president since 2016, he will be able to show exactly what he’s been doing. This coming week is another big week. I’m thinking money in our accounts that wasn’t there the previous day. That Balance will be big, especially if you’re over 61. We will get everything back that they stole from us for their Nefarious reasons. We will have one flat tax. So much will change pretty instantly. So not to argue or be mean, I have just kept my excitement level high, my vibrations high, staying away from social media and very close to Nature.

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carily myers's avatar

AGREE Sweettea. November 2024

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Oh it was, I can see Crowdstrike happening during the so called elections. All computerized voting booths down forever.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Only if infiltrated with red votes. Blue votes get counted twice so problem. And if it’s an obvious minority voting, they get ten times the value.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

So no problem

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daverkb's avatar

Niki: my suspicions were immediately in this direction. And maybe a warning something like ... 'we are watching you' and 'don't think you don't have vulnerabilities'. (Like being run out of business ... maybe.)

Some people here at C & C know things. And so, I am happy to listen to them and see what they say.

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Crixcyon's avatar

Strange, but I haven't been affected in the least and according to one map, my area was part of the target zone. I use Linux so maybe that made a difference.

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Bob Jacquemotte's avatar

I had to order my coffee in person on Friday! My App didn’t work. The horror, the horror..

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Justin's avatar

As Dire Straits puts it

"Maybe get a blister on your little finger

Maybe get a blister on your thumb"

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Robin Greer's avatar

😂

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mimi's avatar

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law were flying back to CA from a wedding in NY State yesterday and got stuck in Detroit overnight due to Delta cancelling their flight. They will eventually get back home....I think.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Ahhh good’ol Romulus airport.

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SomeDude's avatar

crowdstrike does sell software for Linux and managed to crash a couple flavors like debian a little while back with their crapware... it's just on the quiet because most industry is dumb enough to use window$ almost exclusively instead so when they crash that OS it is too big an event not to make the Nooz

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Natalie's avatar

I do use Microsoft on my desktop, and I wasn't affected. But then I try to avoid updates, so maybe my computer wasn't updated with the bug.

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SomeDude's avatar

you (or corporate IT if a business device) have to pay for crowdstrike "security" software to be affected. window$ itself is hot garbage but it was a kernel level access vulnerability triggered by bogus crowdstrike driver files which caused the issue.

it's hard to completely disable automatic updates on win 10 or 11. you can half ass disable them for a while in settings, but to actually turn them off requires registry edits and few people are comfy typing in things that could potentially brick your system if you enter any syntax errors or typos

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daverkb's avatar

SomeDude: my guess based on what you are saying is that this CrowdStrike thing was a targeted attack. And just purely guessing, quite possibly part of something larger ... maybe as to send some kind of message or warning. And maybe Selection Season connected ... as in something to do with voting and/or vote counting?

But what do I know? It just that the look of it stinks.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Avoid updates and malware protection. I believe thats a big part

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daverkb's avatar

Just a guess. You were not targeted, but the servers (whichever ones) were. I think this is a totally good assumption. SomeDude below explains this very well.

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Justin's avatar

Maybe....JUST MAYBE, this will FINALLY be the year of the Linux desktop.

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SB's avatar

Everyone downstream of what happened, especially medical facilities, 911 and airlines better be looking to switch to Linux or Apple asap. Honestly, they are just as much at fault for not having better backup strategies.

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Justin's avatar

It's hard to find good Linux knowledgeable staff.

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SB's avatar

Looks like my marketability just went up.

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daverkb's avatar

SomeDude, Some Interesting Info. Thanks. I understand a lot of servers run on Linux because it is faster.

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phlyme's avatar

I read that Linux and Mac were not affected.

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

Same here. This was a Windows-specific version flaw. Mac & Linux were unaffected. It was an invalid bit of C++ code that accessed an off-limits memory address, causing windows to crash as a result. I have fixed dozens of them since Friday. No biggie.

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daverkb's avatar

Thanks. I a Linux Mint user and only know enough to keep my machines up and running. I always appreciate your kind of info.

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

I am typing this reply on Mint. That said, I have rolled out a few PCs using Pop!_OS (also debian.Ubuntu-based) and I like it very much. *We have options*. Just refrain from installing Microsoft Edge. Brave is great, and you can sync profiles between machines (even Windows).

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daverkb's avatar

Watch out! You could turn into a Super-Hero, at least in my book!

I use Mint and Mint has been my long time favorite. I have used Pops a good bit ... and Fedora somewhat, plus a quite a few other OSs most of which I switched out shortly after the install. I also notice that Mint has shot up in DistroWatches ranking list ... and battling it out with MXlinux. I can't figure it out, but MXlinus must hold some attraction for some people.

I use Cinnamon, and I like Mint Cinnamon better than having to load Cinnamon over Gnome in Pops!_OS. I like Mint's customizing features, and I think Mint's software store is better. And so hard to guess ... right. I'm writing on Mint too.

I have five browsers which I use. My favorite and most used is Yandex (the Google of Russia). I do use Brave and I also very much like Falkon. And all now working well on my System76 Oryx since it tested the memory, found it corrupted and replaced the old memory with an upgrade to 32 GB Crucial. the corrupted memory was, according to the terminal readout, something called Gold Star. I bet you never heard of them. And I bet System76 never used that brand again after the failure complaints began to roll in. Just a guess.

Well, thanks for the heads up. I never use Edge ... nothing MSFT at all. And I guess you can tell I always get excited over anything having to with Linux.

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ILoveherbs's avatar

Nice to know about Brave. Thanks!

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NormaJeanne's avatar

Same here, only I’m a Mac.

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

My vaccum cleaner store was still down Monday. Cash or check only. Florida.

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SB's avatar

Yes, it only hit Windows operating system, not Linux or Apple so also most cell phones were fine because they don't typically run Windows. My computer was find because I don't have automatic updates available and it's old as the hills.

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Beckadee's avatar

Linux wasn't affected.

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

Close, but not true. The only ones affected were computers and servers running Windows, with Crowdstrike installed, and that were *running* when the update was released. People who shut down nightly and boot up in the morning were unaffected because they got the fixed update as soon as they connected to the internet.

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GenEarly's avatar

It's All a Movie until it comes knocking at your door and I'm not talking about just a FIB raid.

Grid Down, No Electricity, Try Living in 1880, 90% Failure Rate.

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

Yes, but by bigger, it was a test to short a stock, hobble the product, and make a crap-ton of money when the stock plummets. That's all this was, kinda like how CNN suddenly started to broadcast Trump rallies on J13.

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CHop's avatar

Could be...or they could be making up by shorting Crowdstrike as the short on the DJT stock didn't work when the assasination failed.

And yes, a movie, but when I see the weird clots, heart attacks, turbo cancers, etc., it's more like a nightmare.

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CHop's avatar

Someone made a crap load of money shorting them

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

Yep, just like shorting Trump's stock just before trying to kill him. There are no coincidences, only undiscovered truths.

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daverkb's avatar

Like 911 ... and if making a boat load of money, then connected.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

More cheating via the election machines?! I would venture to say. I dont want to be pessimistic but it feels impossible to win. So many people love Trump. Many have changed. But we all thought Trump would and did win in 2020

also. So.

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Astragale's avatar

I agree - have you seen that creepy speech by the repellent Herr Schwab threatening humanity with a "cyber pandemic" that will bring almost the end of the world?!

These mafia goons have hijacked global power. And they're using it to commit evil.

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chuck kutchera's avatar

Much bigger! I’m thinking around election time.

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Sheep Dog's avatar

You can "Put-Bet" your last dollar on that. Wait, that might be backwards. Nevermind.

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Sweettea71's avatar

I'm not scared of anything these people attempt. There are billions of us and a few thousand of them.

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