The Universe Strikes Back at Crowdstrike
Aaron Maté: (It's) the cyberfirm that generated the claim that Russia hacked the DNC, setting off Russiagate.
WE’RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS WHO CARE ABOUT TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY...AND ARE TALENTED WRITERS. HERE’S MORE ON THE RECKLESS, CORRUPT, AND INCOMPETENT TEAM AT CROWDSTRIKE!
CrowdStrike is the cyberfirm that generated the claim that Russia hacked the DNC, setting off Russiagate. Even though CrowdStrike was working for the Clinton campaign, the FBI relied on it rather than independently investigate the "hacked" DNC servers. It only emerged four years later that CrowdStrike had "no evidence" of Russian hacking. The Clinton campaign, CrowdStrike, and Mueller had all concealed this. They even gave false statements to Congress about it.
https://aaronmate.net/p/john-durham-ignores-clinton-role…
Since then, CrowdStrike has grown into such a powerful force that it today was responsible for a global outage that has disrupted air travel and banking.
Look at this passage from Breitbart. They missed an opportunity to call it a hack, which would have struck fear into the masses and conditioned us to accept that our enemies are going to take us offline — something for which they must be punished. It would have been a great excuse to point to Iran (which they tried to do with the Trump assissination...and that lasted 10 minutes) and then start a war.
Cybersecurity officials have stated that the issues are not believed to be the result of a malicious cyberattack. Instead, the problems stem from a misconfigured or corrupted update pushed out by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike to its customers. The incident appears to only be affecting devices running the Windows operating system.
AND IF YOU DIDN’T HATE THIS COMPANY ENOUGH...
CrowdStrike CEO is getting pummeled for his response to the global outage. Why everyone hates it:
1) WEAPONS-GRADE CORPO SPEAK Let’s be clear. Legalese doublespeak is designed to dodge and obfuscate rather than inform or communicate. This statement was obviously written by a committee of lawyers and middle managers whose only goal was to avoid legal risk and threats to their own job security. If you can’t understand what the statement is even saying, it’s working as intended.
2) NO APOLOGY The first words should be “I’m sorry” — but you won’t find that anywhere in this statement. Nor the watered down “I take responsibility.” Not even the weasely “We regret…” Nothing! It comes off as cowardly and callous. CrowdStrike caused an outage that took down airlines, a stock exchange, hospitals, ICUs. People might have died. And the CEO is not sorry.
3) PASSIVE VOICE THROUGHOUT This is such classic move to avoid accountability, it’s even become a joke: “Mistakes were made!” This statement is almost comical in its efforts to dodge assigning responsibility. “This issue has been identified…a fix has been deployed.” Which issue? (Global outage) Who caused the issue? (You, CrowdStrike) What fix? (shrug emoji) Did it work? (2 shrug emojis)
4) DISMISSING CUSTOMERS Don’t bother us with your petty complaints of power going out in your local hospital! “We refer customers to the support portal” and “we further recommend customers ensure they’re communicating with representatives through official channels.” You, the customer, are bothering us and making our lives harder.
5) USELESS INFORMATION So many words, so little meaning. This statement says nothing useful — not what the problem was, who caused it, what they learned, what the fix it, how long it might take, what they’re working on, or anything at all. It assigns extra work to the customer by telling them to go through official channels but does NOT then link to the official channels. The onus is on you, customers! If you want to learn more about how CrowdStrike has ruined your day, you go do the work.
Such complete and utter douchebags, to say the least!
BY THE WAY, DOES IT SURPRISE ANYONE THAT MARICOPA COUNTY VOTING MACHINES WERE AFFECTED BY THE OUTAGE?
AND WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK ABOUT THE THEORY THAT THIS WAS A TRIAL RUN FOR SOME “SOLAR FLARE” TAKEDOWN OF THE INTERNET BEFORE THE ELECTION? THEY CAN’T LET TRUMP WIN. IT WILL FUCK UP THE ‘WORLD ORDER’ SO HARD. HOUSES OF CARDS WILL FALL. ELITES WILL BE UN-ELITED!