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CrowdStrike Offers a $10 Apology Gift Card to Say Sorry for Outage

posted by hubie on Saturday July 27 2024, @08:34AM   Printer-friendly

owl writes:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.

On Tuesday, a source told TechCrunch that they received an email from CrowdStrike offering them the gift card because the company recognizes "the additional work that the July 19 incident has caused."

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 27 2024, @05:29PM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday July 27 2024, @05:29PM (#1365923)

    I know of checksums, but haven't studied them in detail. Would an all-zero file have an all-zero checksum, thus passing checksum test? (an all-zero checksum should never pass, but maybe they forgot to "sanitize" the checksum result)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by quietus on Saturday July 27 2024, @05:49PM

    by quietus (6328) on Saturday July 27 2024, @05:49PM (#1365926) Journal

    Nop to the all-zero's checksum -- you get a string of hexadecimal characters, but not all zeroes. The real question is: an all-zeroes [security] update?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by kazzie on Saturday July 27 2024, @06:04PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 27 2024, @06:04PM (#1365927)

    That depends entirely on the checksum algorithm used. To give a simplistic example, an even parity will give a one-bit 0 checksum for your all-zero file, but odd parity would give a '1'.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Saturday July 27 2024, @09:43PM

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday July 27 2024, @09:43PM (#1365944) Journal

    Some of those checksums are just that.
          Sum+=data // running sum in the loop.

    Just to confuse things, they also call a cyclic redundancy check a "checksum"

    https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=crc8 [duckduckgo.com]

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