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George Solverson's avatar

Dry run for November?

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Tracey's avatar

It's very basic to test the $hit out of any software in multiple environments prior to rolling it out. This does not seem like a mistake.

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A.'s avatar

They needed an excuse. Even if it is transparent.

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frett's avatar

In IT and cybersecurity circles, when CrowdStrike was chosen to investigate the data breach, there was collective head scratching. These guys were not big players, and apparently what little reputation they had was about on par with the Geek Squad at Best Buy. They were amateurs with big ambitions and managed to schmooze and ingratiate their way into major contracts and political connections instead of relying on legitimate, quality IT results. Everyone who knew them referred to them very dismissively and said they didn't know what they were doing.

The odd thing is that they specifically courted politicians and companies with Left leaning tendencies, instead of being generally neutral like most IT/cybersecurity companies.

They have been awarded hugely lucrative government contracts including one 2 or 3 years ago that was a direct result of Biden's horrific American Rescue Plan. The amount of the contract has not been revealed, if I remember correctly, but the agency that hired them received $650 MILLION from that fake stimulus bill.

I'd said FOIA's are in order, but it will never happen. Biden learned from his "most transparent" former boss that all you have to do is ignore FOIA's or use deliberate spelling errors to prevent documents from being searched for and found.

Seriously, most people have zero clue how bad this was and will be. The immediate damage is bad enough and wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off many, many companies' books. But this, combined with the recent AT&T hack will make social engineering efforts effortless.

Think about it... "Hi Mr Jones. This is Steve from CrowdStrike. We are reaching out to all our customers to personally walk them through getting their systems back on board and secure so this doesn't happen again. Before we begin, I'll need the system admin password and some other information from you..." smh

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frett's avatar

Here's the piece on that contract a couple years ago.

https://www.defensedaily.com/crowdstrike-nabs-cisa-contract-for-federal-cybersecurity-tools-and-services/homeland-security/

But there are many others.

IT companies are notorious for taking advantage of people's ignorance and fear of tech. For some reason, Liberals are particularly easy to manipulate in this area. Apple is an easy example.

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R U Kidding me.'s avatar

Wow.

Epoch times had an article this week saying China had infiltrated government computers for many years in the USA and its allies.

They had a contract with the government and failed? Allowed it? And continued to allow it.

After the article then cloudstrike outage happened. Weird. lol. Wow

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Tboxtango's avatar

To include Mitt Romney's daughter decision to bring CROWDSTRIKE into the RNC ?

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Damien Buckley's avatar

‘Democrats relied upon Crowdstrike — and for reasons still unknown, not the federal government’

Maximum lols

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Bassehound's avatar

The one minute clip of Klaus Schwab in 2021 or 2022.

Klaus Schwab - Cyber Polygon Global Cybersecurity Attacks - WEF-1 min

https://youtu.be/DU_-r0VGkSc?si=QVzvZhZgZG1DKiIy

Experts at Davos 2023 sound the alarm on cybersecurity | World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/cybersecurity-storm-2023-experts-davos23/

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Tboxtango's avatar

The RNC ran CROWDSTRIKE because of Romney's daughter... so did James Comey because the FBI never saw the Clinton SERVER !

https://open.substack.com/pub/forbiddennews/p/the-dnc-server-what-does-ukraine

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A.'s avatar

Can you imagine where the US would be now if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election? She is frightening!

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A.'s avatar

Never give up using cash.

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Michael Kramer's avatar

BLACKROCK/WEF Out of chaos comes a new world order. Blakrock lost big in the markets on botched hit job. Needs to recoup by shorting futures. We haven't seen the end of volatility. .

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A.'s avatar
Jul 21Edited

Blackrock/WEF have some exceedingly odd ideas about how reality operates. If you actually read through the published WEF material...it's bonkers! Comes across as just another bizarre Doomsday Cult. With wealthy members in high places. Uber-materialism and hedonism must have produced an existential crisis in them, and not being too deep, this nuttiness was their answer to it.

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Tboxtango's avatar

Did you know how big of roles the wives of these guys play in the operations of COVERUP. Take for example, Melissa Hodgeman, Peter Strozk's wife is Assistant Director of the S.E.C ? How do these COVER UP'S keep happening 🤔

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021-15

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frett's avatar

And for what's it's worth, Elon Musk removed CrowdStrike software from all of his company's systems. You wait till Monday and their stock bottoms out....

But then watch as certain individuals begin buying up their bargain basement stock right before the Biden administration announces a huge bailout for them "because they're too big to allow to fail."

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Mary Lou Tringali, PhD's avatar

I can believe this. They are radical leftists.

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riskywoods's avatar

Crowdstrike's fraudulent assessment of the "hack" was probably lauded by many of its customers, but let's see who the fools are who stick with Crowdstrike's services after this.

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Steve Dietrich's avatar

There was a lot going on between Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DNC Chairwoman) Hillary and others. Donna Brazile was called in to takeover as DNC chair and documents in her book , HACKS , the corruption of the Hillary campaign and as I recall their computer issues. CrowdStrike appears to have played a part in the Russian Dossier caper (funded by Hillary and used by the DOJ to spy on Trump) including false statements to the FISA court. Part of the DOJ's Plan B to takeout Trump.

Highly Recommended

https://www.amazon.com/Hacks-Inside-Break-ins-Breakdowns-Donald/dp/0316478512

Inside View of corruption from former DNC Chairwoman

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Julie Pettiford's avatar

I read yesterday that crowdstrike is Ukrainian . That makes sense not scrutinised by US laws and fits with all the corruption there.

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A.'s avatar

I feel for the average citizen of the Ukraine, but I have to agree that there has long been rampant corruption there.

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, considers herself more Ukrainian than Canadian. Her grandfather was Ukrainian Nazi Michael Chomiak, and her mother was Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer Halyna Freeland who worked for George Soros. Guess who got Chrystia the big political position under Troodo in Canada?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Who killed Seth Rich?

CrowdStrike?

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Todd's avatar

No. They were the cleaners.

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Tboxtango's avatar

Remember what DNI Ratliff said in the hearings on Clinton's COMS directed right at Director James Comey !

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אני דוד's avatar

It is highly interesting to me that this occurred just after the failed assassination attempt against Trump. Having such a widespread outage would be a perfect time to start cleaning up any tracks left behind.

I'm not buying the ridiculous excuse given about the update. No large company with an IT department is ignorant enough to push an update without a trial of it first in a limited and controlled manner.

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

What CrowdStrike hopes no one will notice is that their work never stood up under any scrutiny whatsover.

https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/trump-russia-are-there-any-facts

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the long warred's avatar

Just reboot , delete the file and call support 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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