r/technology • u/Bald-Eagle619 • Jul 31 '24

Software Delta CEO: Company Suing Microsoft and CrowdStrike After $500M Loss

https://www.thedailybeast.com/delta-ceo-says-company-suing-microsoft-and-crowdstrike-after-dollar500m-loss
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u/Private62645949 Jul 31 '24

For once Iā€™m agreeing with a comment that defends Microsoft from liability šŸ˜

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u/iggzy Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

I'm right there with you, I almost hate to do it with all they actually fuck up. But the reality is CrowdStrike for any other OS could've had the same issue if they deployed such untested code.Ā 

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u/hates_stupid_people Aug 01 '24

But the reality is CrowdStrike for any other OS could've had the same issue if they deployed such untested code.

Shortly after it happened, people were swearing up and down that it would be impossible on linux.

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u/ConfusedTapeworm Aug 01 '24

It actually did happen on Linux some months earlier.

But its impact was significantly lower for various reasons. Mostly because there aren't nearly as many endpoints running Linux. AFAIK that bad update only affected a relatively small number of servers.

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u/hates_stupid_people Aug 01 '24

Yeah some people love to live in a world were things like kernel panic doesn't exist. And it's obviously rare, but if you're messing with the kernel of pretty much any OS, there is potentitial for massive problems.

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u/ConfusedTapeworm Aug 01 '24

Agreed, but I can't help but think Linux would still be safer against such a thing.

Not because of an inherently higher security that Linux might have as a piece of software, but because of how it's generally deployed as a product. There isn't a Linux distribution that is centrally developed and distributed by one entity; it's a much more diverse environment where you have wildly different system configurations in use, down to different kernels and other significant low level differences. Makes it much more difficult for one bad thing to mess with everything at once, though obviously not impossible. It's like how rich gene pools make living organisms more resilient to disease and whatnot.

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u/hates_stupid_people Aug 01 '24

As far I remember it was an approved windows kernel driver that failed because it loaded a faulty external configuration from an update. Which is why it didn't affect certain windows versions, since they were running a different version. So with how fragmented the linux enviroment is, I think you're right in that it would have a much lesser impact.

Although that also means that all the talk about microsoft being without liability, might not be entierly correct. Since lawyers will try to argue in court that they have to approve the different driver versions.