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kn33@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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kn33@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
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    This is going to be a class action suit, and it’s going to put them out of business, which is good and proper in this context.

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      Kind of like what happened with McAfee! Just don’t look up

      Who was CTO of McAfee when an update bricked millions of computers by deleting svchost.exe

      George Kurtz, the CEO and co-founder of Crowdstrike

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        It’s just so insane to me that c-suites are able to fail upwards after catastrophic failures like that.

        Incidentally, the guy who’s in charge of Google’s search division these days is the guy who was in charge of Yahoo’s search division during the period of time when the went from neck and neck for top dog to “I guess only Japan uses us now” 🤭

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      Or they will be bailed out, like they always are.

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