Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines - eviltoast

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn …

  • Kogasa@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Sure, throw people in jail who haven’t committed a crime, that’ll fix all kinds of systemic issues

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      If you make decisions (typically focussing on profit over anything else) that causes so much disruption, time, and money (not to mention the possibility of risking lives), then yeah, that is a crime.

      As always, if I do something like that, I get jailed. If a CTO causes it,.it’s cost of business,.let’s hand slap the company, and act as if nothing happens. Fuck them, you get paid for this. You fucked it up, you get to he actually be held responsible.