"Agile, ambitious and aggressive" the sarcasm with which this phase was uttered, wonderful.
3 days ago no one outside of IT had ever heard of Crowdstrike. Now the entire world knows the name. Reputation destroyed in an instant.
When I was in high school I had a teacher that had a way of explaining things to you that temporarily elevated you to a fraction of his level of understanding. Today I got to experience that again. Thank you Dave! š¤Æ
The most funny thing is that CEO of Crowdstrike was a CTO at McAfee... during their worldwide faceplant.
for some reason dave's explanation was waaay easier to understand than every other video about this
I am a network systems engineer that had to deal with this for 14 hours that day. This was one of the most informative videos I have ever seen. You helped simplify Windows OS in 15 minutes in a way that hours of reading hasn't. Something about real world scenarios to tag the concept with in my memory really helps. Thanks!
What a great explanation! No bull crap. No conspiracy theories. No badmouthing. Just plain facts. Even me⦠who rarely uses a computer anymore understands, and follows Daveās explanation and walks away a little more knowledgeable. Thanks Daveš
I just learned more about system functions in 5 minutes then I wouldāve imagined. What a clear breakdown on things.
I work in IT. Crowdstrike sales has been calling me trying to get us to switch to them. I don't think they'll be calling us for a bit.
I love that you get right to the point, you don't waste time on useless background, and go full speed ahead with just the information. Thank you!
Dear God! Iāve been out of the IT world for 15 years now, and I still understood his explanations. Iām VERY IMPRESSED by Daveās clear and concise presentation and astounded by the fact that I remembered enough of this āstuffā to finish some of his sentences! Until today, I was convinced that a benevolent universe had purged all that out of my head to make room for important stuff (like cocktail recipes).
This is by far the best explanation of the problem I have seen. Way better than any media outlet. Really great job Dave. Thanks for this
This ladies and gentleman is what an expert sounds like. š
As a predomainantly IBM Mainframe Sysprog (retired) I am heartened that I actually understood everything explained in this hugely informative explanation. Thank you!
Crowdstrike - good name for a company which hit masses throughout the world with its product.
Finally an "Air Crash Investigation" style explanation of what actually happened. I now understand WHAT, WHY and HOW. Thank you, Dave!
Hi Dave, Iām also a retired Windows developer. It was fun listening to you talk about all those old system components that used to be part of our daily life experience. I was impressed that I remembered enough to understand what you were talking about! Thanks a lot for your explanation. I confess that I feel kind of angry at the CrowdStrike developers for taking such liberties with the kernel code. Seems kind of arrogant. No doubt someone thought they were being super clever by defining their code as something required to run when the kernel starts up. Imagine if the CrowdStrike developer had just arranged a meeting with a Windows kernel expert at Microsoft to discuss what they were planning to do. A whole lot of suffering could have been avoided.
Love that while stuck at the airport Dave opened his MacBook. A fair amount of dry humor in this vid.
This was incredibly precise and VERY easy to understand. Fortunately my employer doesn't use Crowdstrike so I got to sit back and watch some of my friends scramble. Thank you for putting this out.
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