Chris Trottier on Nostr: The CEO of CrowdStrike was the CTO of McAfee in 2010 when they released an update ...
The CEO of CrowdStrike was the CTO of McAfee in 2010 when they released an update that made the antivirus think svchost.exe (a system file) was a virus.
That incident bricked tens of thousands of computers. And now he’s bricked millions more.
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