CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

    then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

    If you want to be stupidly pedantic about shit, then nothing is anything.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      5 months ago

      I agree with the sentiment but …

      then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

      Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
      It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Nah. The person you responded to asked a facetious question. You started being pedantic.Everyone know what it means when someone says something is bricked.