Good article, though I really thought it would be about the other end. You know hacking movies in the 90s(?) where the good guys face a hacker-attack, frantically typing at the keyboard trying to keep the hackers away. It is a losing battle though, but just at the nick of time (the progress bar is at 97%) the hero unplugs the power cord or internet cable.
Or, in the case of crowdstrike. I can imagine support starts to get some calls, at some time you realize that something has gone horribly wrong. An update, maybe not obvious which, is wreaking havoc. How do you stop it? Have you foreseen this scenario and have a simple switch to stop sending updates?
Or, do you cut the internet? Unlike the movies there isn't a single cord to pull, maybe the servers are in a different building or some cloud somewhere. They probably have a CDN, can you pull the files efficiently?
Now maybe by the time they discovered this it was mostly too late, all online systems might already have gotten the latest updates (but even if that is the case, do they know that is the case?).
I have resisted "auto updates" for the OS's of my personal machines. Instead the OS nags me when there is a software update and I just ignore it for a week or so. I assume that any accidentally buggy software update will be found by others (or Apple) first and I can have dodged that particular bullet.
Or, in the case of crowdstrike. I can imagine support starts to get some calls, at some time you realize that something has gone horribly wrong. An update, maybe not obvious which, is wreaking havoc. How do you stop it? Have you foreseen this scenario and have a simple switch to stop sending updates?
Or, do you cut the internet? Unlike the movies there isn't a single cord to pull, maybe the servers are in a different building or some cloud somewhere. They probably have a CDN, can you pull the files efficiently?
Now maybe by the time they discovered this it was mostly too late, all online systems might already have gotten the latest updates (but even if that is the case, do they know that is the case?).