Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster

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An analysis of CrowdStrike's official explanation of the code hat resulted in the largest IT disaster in history that crashed 8.5 million Windows computers in a single day.

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CrowdStrike Official Explanation: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/
Analysis from Twitter https://x.com/taviso/status/1814762302337654829
CrowdStrike Part 1 https://youtu.be/4yDm6xNeYas
It works on my machine https://youtu.be/OoQLoKHhohg

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🔖 Topics Covered

- Analysis of CrowdStrike disaster
- Why did windows machines crash?
- What causes the blue screen of death
- How do windows kernel drivers work