I think I avoided it by not installing windows updates tbh
yesterday I installed like 20 of em

I have a friend whos some senior tech engineer thing for the hospital system of my city and hes been up since this all started stuck in work calls

rip

I guess it has to do with some specific cyber security thing called crowd strike, so if you aren't connected to that you're supposedly fine

You're saying I'm finally useful to society?

Yeah, it's a business grade antivirus.

I didn't realize so many companies used it lmao.

My company is actually getting off of it because it's way too expensive, so if this happened a week later we'd be good rn smh.

Holy s***

I'm back tonight so I'm hoping it was resolved but

everything is working at my job (i am a neet)

If i got to see one mre thing about this ill lose it

This s*** really only happens when i fly. Shouldve left at 16:00, gonna be 1am

It's not a hard fix at all. The issue is that someone physically has to do it for each individual PC. It can't be automated. I can't imagine having to do it for hundreds of PCs lol. I only had to fix like 30...

Yeah we easily have probably around 10,000 that need repaired across the whole hospital (including remote staff).

And there are different levels of repairs. Some people have a blue screen that gives them advanced options which allows IS to remote into their computer and fix it.

But the majority of people (including my entire office) have to wait on a different IS team to come with USB recovery sticks because their blue screens are either stuck on recovery mode with no options, or in a constant boot loop.

I was annoyed as hell when IS came to our office earlier and was like "uhhh nothing we can do today" lmao

And that's just MY team. My department has 7 different teams totaling over 200 employees, each with their own computer, and about 180 of those employees are remote workers. So the majority of them are required to come onsite with their computers to be repaired over the next week

it’s so over for every institution imaginable

We watching Blade Runner 2049 tonight

If nothing else this outage gave me a real funny houseless person interaction

Tried to get some gas at a gas station by me that usually has homeless people outside of it asking for money and dude was like “ayo they got f***ed by a hack I know you don’t carry cash so you won’t be able to get any”

Lord knows what I’d do if KTT was down

imagine you're working at this security company and just feeling super lazy so you just rush out this whatever update and it ends up shutting down airports and tons of systems worldwide

System overload!!! Screaming no no no no nooooooooo